{"id":12865,"date":"2016-07-28T18:18:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T22:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12865"},"modified":"2016-07-28T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T22:18:04","slug":"hiking-wv-blackwater-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12865","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Blackwater Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hiked \/ walked a lot around Blackwater Falls, and there were lots of areas that were great for kids&#8211;rocks to climb and leap off and lots of water to play in.<\/p>\n<p>The best places to play in the water were Elekala Falls (the water was low&#8211;higher water with a faster flow might not be recommended for smaller kids), and a stream just past Lindy Point&#8211;park at the Lindy Point trail head, and continue down the road that says it&#8217;s for 4&#215;4 vehicles only. You&#8217;ll soon come to a stream.<\/p>\n<p>Stop and play.<\/p>\n<p>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwaterfalls.com\/\">Blackwater Falls State Park<\/a><br \/>\nTrails: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwaterfalls.com\/images\/BLAC_map.pdf\">Elekala Falls, Cannan Loop &#8220;Road&#8221;, Balanced Rock Trail<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/27933481084\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160723_Blackwater_Falls_056\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c5.staticflickr.com\/8\/7561\/27933481084_d4c17e1faa_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20160723_Blackwater_Falls_056\"><\/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\/27933526514\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160724_Blackwater_Falls_006\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8406\/27933526514_3689eb933f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160724_Blackwater_Falls_006\"><\/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\/28517612186\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160721_Blackwater_Falls_022\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8734\/28517612186_47d085b500_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160721_Blackwater_Falls_022\"><\/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\/28550593355\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160724_Blackwater_Falls_037\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c4.staticflickr.com\/9\/8322\/28550593355_569cd68330_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160724_Blackwater_Falls_037\"><\/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\/27980794413\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160725_Blackwater_Falls_034\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c6.staticflickr.com\/9\/8047\/27980794413_680fbecd48_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160725_Blackwater_Falls_034\"><\/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\/28518244081\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160725_Blackwater_Falls_015\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/9\/8881\/28518244081_7c2ec49411_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160725_Blackwater_Falls_015\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hiked \/ walked a lot around Blackwater Falls, and there were lots of areas that were great for kids&#8211;rocks to climb and leap off and lots of water to play in. The best places to play in the water were Elekala Falls (the water was low&#8211;higher water with a faster flow might not be [&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":[32,22,1068,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photos","category-state-parks","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3lv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12865","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=12865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}