The best-known waterfall in the area is the one that gives the state park its name. At 57 feet high, Blackwater Falls is the state’s highest cataract, and the centerpiece of West Virginia’s most ...

Call up a vision of the Mountain State, and the strains of a familiar tune begin to play. You know the one. It begins “Almost heaven, West Virginia” and tells of a place that’s filled with ...

DAVIS, W.Va. — Blackwater Falls State Park Lodge in Tucker County celebrated a grand reopening on Tuesday following the completion of a multimillion-dollar renovation project. State officials ...

Blackwater Falls is the signature attraction of its namesake park; the 57-foot-tall cascade is easily viewed from the flat, quarter-mile Gentle Trail or the steep, half-mile Blackwater Falls Trail, ...

The falls are located where the Blackwater River leaves bowl-shaped Canaan Valley, home of another state park, two ski areas and a federal wildlife refuge, and drops into forested Blackwater Canyon, ...