{"id":12460,"date":"2015-07-27T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12460"},"modified":"2015-07-26T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T01:11:09","slug":"hiking-wv-allegheny-blackwater-canyon-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12460","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Allegheny \/ Blackwater Canyon Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent Thursday through Saturday in the Blackwater Falls \/ Canaan area, and it was beautiful. Our hikes were shorter than normal, mostly because many of them had people not used to hiking. (Hikers ages ranged from 4 to 90, so, not so much with the long hikes.)<\/p>\n<p>Along the Blackwater Canyon trail were old coke ovens, from Thomas&#8217; industrial days, and then Douglas Falls, which were gorgeous, and well worth the scramble down to the water.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Thomas, WV<br \/>\nTrails: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveblackwater.org\/documents\/trailbrochurelegalsmall.pdf\">Allegheny &#038; Blackwater Canyon Trails<\/a><br \/>\nDistance: <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-07-23-Allegheny-Blackwater-CanyonTrails.html\">3.8 miles<\/a><br \/>\nElevation: 2743-2946 feet<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/19414042624\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_038\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/378\/19414042624_1fa09d8942_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_038\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/19848678750\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_071\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/494\/19848678750_5de783b861_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_071\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/19850024249\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_030\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/514\/19850024249_f6cbb776d5_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_030\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/19848572948\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_004\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/530\/19848572948_e1aabdb51e_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_004\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/19413982894\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_058\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3833\/19413982894_723440d3d0_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_058\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/20036649495\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_015\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3798\/20036649495_93e8df0040_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_015\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bonus: Wild black raspberries.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/19849955039\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_027\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3741\/19849955039_1f59844057_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20150723_Blackwater_Rail_Trail_027\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They were very delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent Thursday through Saturday in the Blackwater Falls \/ Canaan area, and it was beautiful. Our hikes were shorter than normal, mostly because many of them had people not used to hiking. (Hikers ages ranged from 4 to 90, so, not so much with the long hikes.) Along the Blackwater Canyon trail were old [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1069,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-photos","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3eY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460","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=12460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}