{"id":11909,"date":"2014-09-21T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T15:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11909"},"modified":"2014-09-21T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T15:54:50","slug":"hiking-wv-watoga-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11909","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Watoga State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go ahead. Say it: WA-TOGA! WA-TOGA! WA-TOGA!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watoga.com\/\">Watoga State Park<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Trails<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watoga.com\/watoga.pdf\">Honeybee Trail, Buckhorn Trail, Dragon Draft Trail<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Distance<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Watoga-State-Park.html\">2.4 miles<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Elevation<\/strong>: 920 feet<\/p>\n<p>At Watoga there&#8217;s a lake:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/15306038761\" title=\"20140920_Watoga_005 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3872\/15306038761_8ed546d072_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140920_Watoga_005\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the leaves are just starting to change:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/15122597038\" title=\"20140920_Watoga_014 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3848\/15122597038_015d969c18_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140920_Watoga_014\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an arboretum:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/15122635967\" title=\"20140920_Watoga_019 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3863\/15122635967_806a97c7f2_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140920_Watoga_019\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a tree (still alive) that has been attacked by some kind of insect, which was then rooted out by woodpeckers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/15309192415\" title=\"20140920_Watoga_023 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3893\/15309192415_2671668e28_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20140920_Watoga_023\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hiked the outside of the trail, then cut into the center, where the arboretum trail crosses back and forth across the creek:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/15122603908\" title=\"20140920_Watoga_020 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5573\/15122603908_bfc31ef626_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20140920_Watoga_020\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fascinating, the amount of stone and rock in the creek bed, that has been uncovered over time, and shifted around every time there&#8217;s a hard rain.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also access to the Greenbrier river:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/15122489170\" title=\"20140920_Watoga_025 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3871\/15122489170_44dd8a45e3_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140920_Watoga_025\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/15122486380\" title=\"20140920_Watoga_040 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5574\/15122486380_2007a2be4e_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140920_Watoga_040\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/15309193685\" title=\"20140920_Watoga_047 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5554\/15309193685_1a826ac24a_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140920_Watoga_047\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a lovely park, and as it&#8217;s the end of the season, it was quite empty and quiet (which I always enjoy).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Watoga-State-Park.html\">GPS map of hike<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go ahead. Say it: WA-TOGA! WA-TOGA! WA-TOGA! You&#8217;re welcome. Location: Watoga State Park Trails: Honeybee Trail, Buckhorn Trail, Dragon Draft Trail Distance: 2.4 miles Elevation: 920 feet At Watoga there&#8217;s a lake: As you can see, the leaves are just starting to change: There&#8217;s also an arboretum: This is a tree (still alive) that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1069,22,1068,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-photos","category-state-parks","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-365","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}