{"id":11928,"date":"2014-10-05T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2014-10-05T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T14:12:03","slug":"hiking-west-virginia-cranberry-glades-the-falls-of-hills-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11928","title":{"rendered":"Hiking West Virginia: Cranberry Glades & the Falls of Hills Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it was more casual strolling than hiking, but both of these are places you shouldn’t miss. Although it was only the 4th of October, it was 42 degrees at Cranberry Glades Botanical Area, and there were a few snow flurries. So the weather there can be quite different from the weather elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Which means I was wishing that I had worn much warmer pants.<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Falls of Hills Creek<\/a> and Cranberry Glades Botanical Area<\/a>
\nTrails<\/strong>: Cranberry Glades Botanical Area & the Falls of Hills Creek
\nDistance<\/strong>: Cranberry Glades Botanical Area: 0.6 mile<\/a>; Falls of Hills Creek: 1.3 miles<\/a>
\nElevation<\/strong>: Falls of Hills Creek: 367 feet<\/a><\/p>\n

Cranberry Glades Botanical Area<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Cranberry Glades Botanical Area is a flat boardwalk, so it is accessible to everyone. Although it is only a 0.6 mile loop, there is incredible biological diversity in that small area.<\/p>\n

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Yup. Snow.<\/p>\n

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Cranberry Wilderness Area<\/strong><\/p>\n

This area was in an area not in the boardwalk, but similar botanically, and the light was a lot better.<\/p>\n

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The Falls of Hills Creek<\/strong><\/p>\n

The upper falls are accessibly by a gently sloping path. They were also kinda boring without much water going through the area. <\/p>\n

The rest of the path was a lot of stairs. But utterly worth the hike.<\/p>\n

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The Middle Falls<\/p>\n

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The Lower Falls<\/p>\n

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The stairs are quite steep in places.<\/p>\n

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Cranberry Glades Botanical Area GPS map<\/a>
\nFalls of Hills Creek GPS map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it was more casual strolling than hiking, but both of these are places you shouldn’t miss. Although it was only the 4th of October, it was 42 degrees at Cranberry Glades Botanical Area, and there were a few snow flurries. So the weather there can be quite different from the weather elsewhere. Which means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1069,1070,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-national-parkforest","category-photos","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-36o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928","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=11928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}