Blackwater Falls State Park

Chuck and I went to West Virginia for a short vacation Labor Day week. We stayed at the Bright Morning Inn in Davis, just a few minutes drive from Blackwater Falls State Park. Blackwater is in the Potomac Highlands on the east side of the state, just below the Maryland panhandle. Pretty spectacular scenery, deep gorges, rocky outcroppings, and a hundred waterfalls on every stream. As you can see in a couple of the photos, the Blackwater gorge was invisible in the fog at times.

The first three photos are were taken from the Pendleton Point Overlook shortly after we arrived at the park. 

 

 

The view below is from the overlook at the Lodge a couple evenings later. It's a HDR to cope with the contrast in the sunset and mountain sides.

 

We stopped early in the morning for sunrise - but got dense fog instead. It look like the world ended just past that ridge.

We made friends with a young cat - he was just a bundle of energy, zooming around the terrace, chasing leaves and grasshoppers. Quite the cutie.

That white behind Chuck is a wall of fog blanketing the entire gorge.

An elderly deer pretty much ignored us as she snacked her way down the side of the road.

More photos to come - it's just a beautiful area.