Almost Heaven…West Virginia

 Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River…(are you singing yet?)

Twin Falls State Park Resort in West Virginia, what a place! This is definitely up there among our favorite places to stay. 

A crazy winding road up in the mountains led us to an oasis of a state park complete with miles of trails (careful to avoid afternoon hiking on certain trails that the copperheads like to sun themselves on), a pioneer village, 18 hole golf course (if you walk you play for free- which we did!), beautiful lodge and restaurant (we stayed in our “camper”lodge and our restaurant was a grill outside), playgrounds, tennis and pickle ball courts. Since it was off season there were only 3 other campers in our section of the campground. So quiet and spacious AND no bugs!


The golf course was gorgeous! We played the front nine the day we arrived and the back nine the next day. Rick kept trying to pay but the nice lady in the pro shop said, “If you’re walking just grab a pull cart and go on out honey!” So, we did.

Exercise with a purpose- Rick’s words




We checked out the Pioneer Village thinking it was like a museum that we could walk into the buildings and explore but when we got there the guy coming out of the house informed us that in fact he lived there with his family and we could just take pictures. We don’t speak “West Virginian” but from what I could understand the Park system allows him to live there with his family in exchange for taking care of the place and allowing visitors to take pictures. Since it’s in the middle of nowhere they also home school their kids- no internet or TV. 



We just might have to come back to this little piece of heaven.



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