{"id":12950,"date":"2016-09-11T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12950"},"modified":"2016-09-11T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T21:25:08","slug":"hiking-wv-beech-fork-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12950","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Beech Fork State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beech Fork State Park is for boaters and fishermen, which is one of the reasons we weren&#8217;t in a rush to visit. It&#8217;s primarily a lake (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestonesp.com\/\">Bluestone<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moncovelakestatepark.com\/\">Moncove Lake<\/a>) so there was little hiking, which is perfectly fine, because our state park system should be for all West Virginians&#8211;hunters, fishermen, kayakers, and hikers alike.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t any place I&#8217;m eager to revisit, since there wasn&#8217;t much hiking.<\/p>\n<p>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beechforksp.com\/\">Beech Fork State Park<\/a><br \/>\nTrail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beechforksp.com\/beechfork.pdf\">Overlook Trail<\/a><br \/>\nDistance: 2.5 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 601-920 feet<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the view from the Overlook Trail.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/29325290130\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160909_Beech_Fork_003\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8138\/29325290130_7c7c7a06c7_z.jpg?resize=360%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20160909_Beech_Fork_003\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to overlook. (HA!)<\/p>\n<p>There is a cemetery within Beech Fork, so as is my wont, we wandered around, considering the impermanence of life and memory.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/29325280980\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160909_Beech_Fork_012\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8156\/29325280980_0b613e2140_z.jpg?resize=360%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20160909_Beech_Fork_012\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of WWI vets buried there&#8211;more WWI than WWII from a cursory wander. At some point, I&#8217;ll put all these cemetery photos up on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the lake itself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/29325284960\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160909_Beech_Fork_004\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7574\/29325284960_b48ac61e10_z.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"20160909_Beech_Fork_004\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beech Fork State Park is for boaters and fishermen, which is one of the reasons we weren&#8217;t in a rush to visit. It&#8217;s primarily a lake (like Bluestone and Moncove Lake) so there was little hiking, which is perfectly fine, because our state park system should be for all West Virginians&#8211;hunters, fishermen, kayakers, and hikers [&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":[1069,22,1068,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","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-3mS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950","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=12950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}