West Virginia Mountain Trail Runners

Flash, Flash, Flash…..new Highlands Sky course record set by Joel Wolpert at 5:54:19.

See Results. More details, photos, and race reports forthcoming.

We need help cutting & clearing downed trees on the trails here at the forest!  Our maintenance crew is backlogged pretty badly and we could use some volunteers.  There is a group of Americorps volunteers coming this Saturday, June 7 (National Trails Day).  If you have a chainsaw you can bring or just want to help moving the cut trees, please feel free to come out.  We are meeting at the KSF maintenance building behind the office at 9:00am. 

Also, if you wish to remain on the trail maintenance email list, please send an email to kevindials@wvdnr.gov and be sure to include your name in the email.

Thanks in advance!

Kevin Dials
Assistant Superintendent

The West Virginia Mountain Trail Runners present the 6th annual Highlands Sky Trail Run.

The event is centered at the Canaan Valley Resort State Park. The point to point course traverses Dolly Sods and Canaan Valley through some of the most rugged and beautiful terrain in West Virginia. Dolly Sods is an area of high elevation, windswept plains ranging from 2500 to 4700 feet elevation. Trail terrain varies from woodland paths, rock and boulder, to upland bogs, through northern hardwoods at lower elevations, to Red Spruce and heath barrens above 4000 feet. Canaan is the highest large valley east of the Mississippi. The Valley creates the headwaters of the Blackwater River and has a unique environment composed of wetlands and uplands with vegetation characteristic of more northern latitudes. WVMTR is a permittee of the Monongahela National Forest.

Complete information can be found at the Highlands Sky 40M Trail Run site.