>>508278037
In 200 hours I could have explored 4 new river systems in Appalachia!

>>508278090
you can sorta trace the new river from its headwaters in nc down to the new river gorge which is kinda fun - apart from the helene related detours/closures/road work

>Always on the lookout for fun and weird places to hike/see.
tons of interesting stuff in WV just a lot of it hard to access

there's upper and lower seneca creek falls, lower is on private land (used to be publicly accessible though before '85)
upper is a common 5 mi each way trail along a flattish logging road to upper falls, there USED to be a trail from there connecting to lower falls, but its better I think to access lower falls from the white's run road allegheny mountain trail access but preferably on a sunday when the hunting camp that owns the land is closed
I guess I could ASK them if I can hike to the lower falls im just nervous they will say no and apparently fishermen do it without asking

there's also a secret waterfall basically one creek system over on big run of north fork south branch potomac river (there's a bunch of different things called big run and north fork) this is the one where you park on rt 28 (there's a little lot unmarked) and walk up the old rr grade and supposedly 3.5. mi in there's a falls according to the usgs topo map but ive never seen a picture of it and its probably not that big/seasonal
big run is gorgeous though

>>508278123
did you try doing north fork deer creek on a 4x4 or something?
>You used to be able to 'carefully' drive off road from north fork ext out of green bank to elleber road, but totally impassable now
I figured that by car, but I meant
a) if its even hikeable and
b) if you can park at the downstream entrance of north fork deer creek where the official road ends and the trail begins (according to the topo map)