{"id":13515,"date":"2017-09-26T19:45:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=13515"},"modified":"2017-09-26T19:45:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:45:59","slug":"hiking-wv-canaan-valley-state-park-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/13515","title":{"rendered":"Hiking WV: Canaan Valley State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hiked this trail several times before, and will do so many times again. It&#8217;s a very short trail, with little elevation change, yet you go through several different types of habitat.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful hike, perfect for kids, and one I highly recommend.<\/p>\n<p>Location: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canaanresort.com\/\">Canaan Valley State Park<\/a><br \/>\nTrail: Blackwater River Trail<br \/>\nDistance: 0.9 miles<br \/>\nElevation: 3158-3334 feet<\/p>\n<p>OK, this is actually not along the Blackwater River trail, but the beaver pond is on the way to the trail.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/36671448023\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20170925_Canaan_Valley_025\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4507\/36671448023_66beb41316_z.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"20170925_Canaan_Valley_025\"><\/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\/36631609734\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20170925_Canaan_Valley_006\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4479\/36631609734_99e5e062f0_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20170925_Canaan_Valley_006\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Blackwater River, meandering through Canaan Valley<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/36671451803\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20170925_Canaan_Valley_012\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4361\/36671451803_fd8ca62f16_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20170925_Canaan_Valley_012\"><\/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\/36671452763\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20170925_Canaan_Valley_016\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4389\/36671452763_c0b620eef8_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20170925_Canaan_Valley_016\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hiked this trail several times before, and will do so many times again. It&#8217;s a very short trail, with little elevation change, yet you go through several different types of habitat. It&#8217;s a beautiful hike, perfect for kids, and one I highly recommend. Location: Canaan Valley State Park Trail: Blackwater River Trail Distance: 0.9 [&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-13515","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-3vZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515","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=13515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}