{"id":12717,"date":"2016-03-02T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T00:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12717"},"modified":"2016-03-02T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T00:38:24","slug":"hiking-wv-blackwater-river-rail-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12717","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Blackwater River Rail Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went back to the Blackwater River rail trail on Sunday, because I wanted to see both the old coke ovens and the falls along that section of the river (NOT in the park).<\/p>\n<p>Location: Blackwater Canyon Rail Trail<br \/>\nDistance: 3.2 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 2785\t&#8211; 2971 feet<\/p>\n<p>With most of the brush gone for the winter, we saw precisely how many coke ovens there had been&#8211;they stretched for a least half a mile on both sides of the trail<\/p>\n<p><strong>Falls along the Blackwater River<\/strong> (not the main falls)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/24828503593\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_202\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1491\/24828503593_9c09b084d1_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_202\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/25087630439\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_212\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1563\/25087630439_50eaee2712_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_212\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Historic Coke Ovens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/25087623529\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_173\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1611\/25087623529_ccf29dd8e1_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_173\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/24824644964\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_187\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1622\/24824644964_38080dd1cc_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_187\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/25429052156\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_184\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1692\/25429052156_c36428693f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_184\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>Some nature slowly taking back the coke ovens.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/25455197395\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_190\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1648\/25455197395_0922456a1f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160228_Blackwater_Falls_190\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went back to the Blackwater River rail trail on Sunday, because I wanted to see both the old coke ovens and the falls along that section of the river (NOT in the park). 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