A day at Cacapon Resort State Park
Weekend getaways - Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
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Berkeley Springs - Bath, West Virginia - 74.3 Thermal Degree Springs
Berkeley Springs State Park is located in the center of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. The Bathhouse first opened in 1930. Since then, thousands have enjoyed the variety of baths and treatments in the warm mineral waters that flow from the springs at a constant temperature of 74.3 degrees Fahrenheit. The springs discharge from five principle sources and numerous lesser ones, all within a hundred yards, approximately 1,000 gallons of clear, sparkling water per minute. Bathing in the springs has been popular since before the days of George Washington.
For the record the average ground water temperature is 54 degrees for this region of the United States.
I produced this video on Friday, February 20, 2015 at 2 Degrees Above Zero
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I highly recommend of The Town of Spa's including the Country Inn is a fantastic Hotel next to the historic spring, I highly recommend the spa package. Remember deep relaxing therapeutic massage consisting of long connecting strokes, kneading, and friction. This decreases stress, tension, and fatigue, improves blood and lymphatic circulation, and calms the nervous system. The water has perfect chemistry for the body...Again Berkeley Springs is a fantastic getaway destination for relaxing....I highly recommend attending the 30th Anniversary of the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting that is scheduled this coming February 21-23, 2020 also located at the Beautiful Country Inn at Phone 304-258-1200
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JWTT: Visited Cacapon State Park Lodge , Morton Grove, WV
Cacapon State Park Lodge
Cacapon's lodge is situated on the east side of Cacapon Mountain overlooking the wide expanse of the Robert Trent Jones, Sr. golf course. The 48-room facility offers a relaxed setting complete with lounge with a TV, board games, fireplace, and cozy furniture creating an area for cool autumn and winter evenings. Downstairs a recreation room provides hours of entertainment with various games.
2 - Across the USA - Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
a wonderful small town full of history and artists.
Mountain Overlook at Cacapon State Park, West Virginia
I made a short visit to Cacapon State Park, located on Cacapon Mountain in Morgan County, eastern West Virginia. My first stop was the Mountain Overlook. To reach the overlook, you can drive a little over 4 miles up a rough gravel and dirt road, even crossing into Virginia at one point, and arriving to a very nice overlook. The overlook is just north of the highest point on Cacapon Mountain, and offers a spectacular view of four states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. After taking in the view at the overlook, I made a short visit to one of the reservoirs in the park. There were some beautiful cloud formations in the sky that evening. I was checking out the lake as a possible parking spot for a future hike on some of the park trails. Thanks for watching!
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Berkeley Springs State Park Baths - 1750 - Oldest Health Resort in USA
The 30th International Berkeley Springs Water Tasting is Scheduled for February 20-22, 2020 this winter. The Ultimatum location to learn about Water our most precious resource. Please try to attend.
Berkeley Springs State Park Roman Bath House - 1815
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Sledding at Cacapon State Park
This was a really fun day of sledding that I just couldn't resist to make a film of. This was shot at Cacapon Sate Park in Berkeley Springs.
Haunted Berkeley Castle, Berkeley Springs, WV.
Colonel Samuel Taylor Suit was a whiskey distiller, stock broker and railroad magnate. He met Rosa Pelham at a debutante ball when he was 46 years old and freshly divorced man about town, she was just a little 17 year old US Congressman's daughter.
Due to the age difference, no romance looked to be in the cards, but she was a girl who appreciated the finer things and wanted a man who could provide them.
She was socializing in one of the hotels in Berkeley Springs which at the time was known as Bath, West Virginia, when she mentioned that she wanted to live in a castle.
The Colonel told her that he would build a castle for her if the now 22 year old Rosa would marry him.
She agreed and they were married soon thereafter.
By 1885, architect Snowden Ashford had begun building the castle using plans by Alfred B. Mullett and it was finished by about 1888.
Colonel Suit never really got to enjoy the castle as he died shortly before Rosa and her three young children moved in.
The word around town was that Rosa may have had something to do with the death of her much older husband. She never remarried, and some folks said it was because if she did, she would have lost the castle and the rest of her inheritance.
This is where the story goes off the rails.
Berkeley Springs had a reputation for being a party town, Sodom and Gomorrah of the late 1800s. I'll just leave it to your imagination what kind of things folks with a lot of money and time to kill might be up to soaking in the mineral springs way back in the mountains.
Rosa, liked to party all night, drinking and gambling. She hired gypsy fortune tellers, and dabbled in black magic. One of her many gentleman callers was a fellow known as Jawbone, they got into a fracas that ended up on the roof of the castle. He fell to his death and is said to be one of the ghosts haunting the castle to this day. Did Rosa push him?
Eventually, Rosa had run through all her money, and she became a recluse, throwing rocks at anyone who approached her door. Her neighbors called her a witch and some thought she had gone insane. Eventually the castle had to be sold in 1913 to pay her debts.
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Local band performing in Berkeley springs state Park
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Cacapon GC, Cacapon resort, Berkley Springs WV 190315.
Grade: B+
Length: 6800 slope 131 from back tees
Cost: March rates $30 for 18+cart
So the Mountain course at Massanutten is the closest comparison to this layout and environment that I know of but clearly the environment here has virtually no distractions compared to Massanutten. This course is not as difficult as the Mtn course, though. It's much more straightforward and forgiving. But it's still long enough, tough enough and enough of a challenge to be fun to play. I really had a good time playing it despite the spring thaw course-condition.
Plus it is nowhere near the drive out of DC that Massanutten is, which is maybe a half-hour north of Roanoke on I-81. Cacapon is about a half-hour drive up Rte 511 NW of Winchester, which itself is maybe an hour from Dulles out Rte66 and up I-81 .
It's out there, but it's not that far out there.
Yes indeedy you will pass some much more interesting and longer courses on the way out there, as there are some very-good and challenging public courses in the Front Royal area not to mention inside or on Rte 15 which runs south through Frederick Md and then down through Leesburg, Warrenton and on down to Culpepper. But this one is definitely worth the drive. I would call it outright charming.
I tried to shoot some video to start and then I got all wrapped-up for a week trying to stabilize it,...first at 4k and then all over again at 1080p which really is good enough for any really conceivable use of a YT video of this sort . It's experimentation and the results are not spectacular but I didn't throw-up watching the video from start to finish. The main thing is that the stabilization is inconsistent because I could only run IS on 8 videos at a time and each time I started a new batch I tried different settings. It's not something that I've spent a lot of time testing and evaluating.
And obviously it would be better to use a stabilized camera.
The greens are basically the same greens as the blue course at Hains Point. Very few courses in the DC area have this type of spongy green where the ball hits but doesn't bounce and rolls slowly. These are definitely beginner greens but they putt true enough, you just have to use some extra muscle. And otherwise this is a big-boy course, no question. More than enough traps, water, crevasses, trees and waste to keep it real. I would never say that this course is as good as the Mountain course at Massanutten but it's still quite decent as a course and it simply is a much better environment in which to play golf. I could not name more than one or two courses out of all the courses that I've played in the area that are free of houses and road-noise like this course. Even Bethpage Black isn't this good in that regard.
So it's definitely a keeper, a standout course despite the lack of length, and definitely would go on my Top 20 list of DC area courses.
Hiking to the Northernmost point in Virginia
I started in Cacapon State Park in West Virginia. The road was closed to vehicular traffic, so I parked near the nature center and hiked up. There are plenty of rugged trails to the top, but I was limited on time, so I took the road. It's 4.5 miles of continuous uphill (and for those who may have knee issues, it's 4.5 downhill to finish.), so you'll need to be in shape. That said, you can go in the comfort of your car from March through October, but what kind of adventure would that be? There are no markers that I could see, marking the State line. I walked around a bit making sure to cover enough ground to make it official from my non-surveyor standpoint.
I did the 9 mile roundtrip, with stops for pictures and scenery admiration, in 2 1/2 hours. The rugged route is longer and approaches the state line from the WV direction.
There's a scenic overlook about 1/2 mile beyond, but I didn't budget time for that.
“Visit Berkeley Springs” Classic 1950’s West Virginia Travel Film
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West Virginia Recreation Resources - 1935
See West Virginia and its state parks as they were in 1935, from the Green Brier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs to CCC men working on the Lost River Park. Also featured are Cacapon and Watoga state parks and the town of Berkley.
This film focuses on State Parks of West Virginia. In part 1, views of cities, factories, steel furnaces, hydroelectric plants, rivers, canals, and locks depict the State's industries and waterways. It shows Green Brier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs and the town of Berkeley. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) men work in Lost River Park. Tourists ride horses, picnic at an outdoor table, and examine an old house. Children crippled by polio perform handicraft and sunbathe in Berkeley hospital. In part 2, visitors to Cacapon State Park ride bicycles and horses. It shows the forest, the artificial lake, picnickers, wild turkey, and deer. Visitors to Watoga State Park picnic, swim, and fish.
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Deer
Fishing
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Poliomyelitis
Swimming
Turkey
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WV Top 3 | Lost River State Park
This week's WV Top 3 trip takes us to Lost River State Park in Mathias, West Virginia. It also took us to the most breath taking view we had ever seen in all of our exploring. It's truly a cannot miss experience! Check out more about our trip to Lost River on our blog post:
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