Blackwater Falls State Park
Blackwater Falls State Park is located in the Allegheny Mountains of Tucker County, West Virginia, US. The centerpiece of the park is Blackwater Falls, a 62-foot cascade where the Blackwater River leaves its leisurely course in Canaan Valley and enters rugged Blackwater Canyon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: State park in West Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Blackwater Falls”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Elakala Falls.
Elakala Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Forest Wander, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Elakala Falls are a series of four waterfalls of Shays Run as it descends into the Blackwater Canyon in West Virginia. They are within Blackwater Falls State Park and are quite popular among photographers, with the ease of access for the first waterfall, and the relatively low traffic of the other waterfalls in the series.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Douglas and Davis.
Douglas
Hamlet
Douglas is an unincorporated community and coal town on the North Fork Blackwater River in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States. Originally known as Albert, the community's name was changed to Douglas by an official Board on Geographic Names decision in 1965. Douglas is situated 1½ miles northwest of Blackwater Falls State Park.
Davis
Photo: Forest Wander, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Davis is a city in the Potomac Highlands region of West Virginia. The area around Davis is noted for the Canaan Valley, Timberline and the region's caverns, Blackwater Falls State Park, the pretty mountain town of Thomas, and the Monongahela National Forest.
Coketon
Hamlet
Coketon is an unincorporated community and coal town in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States. Coketon lies at the confluence of Snyder Run and the North Fork Blackwater River, south of the town of Thomas. Coketon is situated 2 miles northwest of Blackwater Falls State Park.
Blackwater Falls State Park
- Categories: West Virginia state park and waterfall
- Location: Tucker, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Russian—“Blackwater Falls State Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Blackwater Falls State Park”
- Chinese: “黑水瀑布州立公园”
- Chinese: “黑水瀑布州立公園”
- French: “parc d’État de Blackwater Falls”
- French: “Parc d’État de Blackwater Falls”
- Indonesian: “Air Terjun Blackwater”
- Indonesian: “Taman Daerah Air Terjun Blackwater”
- Polish: “Park stanowy Blackwater Falls”
- Russian: “Блэкуотер-Фолс”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Pendleton Run Watershed Dam and Thomas Patrick Memorial Bridge.
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