Celebration of the Outdoors – Sunday, October 14, 2018

Celebration of the Outdoors – Sunday, October 14, 2018

Join us for our annual Celebration of the Outdoors festival!  We’ll be at the Coopers Rock Overlook in the picnic shelters from 10am – 3pm, Sunday October 14 with all kinds of free, family friendly events.  Check our schedule below for rock climbing, birdhouse building, live music, a drone demonstration, guided hikes, a raptor exhibit, […]

Scott Run Trail Leaps Forward

Scott Run Trail Leaps Forward

by Adam Polinski    Two big days of work in August, 2018, catapulted the upgrade of the “campground hill” section of Scott Run Trail from 50% to 90% completed.   The focus of this particular project on Scott Run Trail has been to tackle the poorly-drained, overgrown, and extremely rough trail surface of the quarter-mile […]

Trail Work Day October 7, 2018

Trail Work Day October 7, 2018

Rocky Habitat Restoration Trail Work Day Sunday, October 7, 2018, 11am – 4pm We’ll be planting trees and working to restore and rejuvenate areas of the forest that have been heavily impacted by visitor use. The meeting place is in the large, gravel ‘Overflow Parking Lot’  just before   the Overlook Parking Lot, on the north […]

Coopers Rock 50k and Half Marathon (4/27/2019)

Coopers Rock 50k and Half Marathon (4/27/2019)

It’s that time again for the Coopers Rock 50k and Half Marathon races! Down below you will find further information about the event and a link to registration! Or you can skip to Sign Up, [Here] This is a rocky, challenging, and scenic trail race at Coopers Rock State Forest in north central West Virginia.  The […]

Scott Run Trail Gets 123 Hours Of Work

Scott Run Trail Gets 123 Hours Of Work

–by Adam Polinski On Sunday, August 13th, 2017, two shifts of incoming WVU Freshmen, totaling 35 brand new college students, pitched in on CRF’s ongoing efforts to upgrade Scott Run Trail. The work they assisted with was hauling crusher run gravel in 5-gallon buckets to add a top-coating to an extremely bumpy, rough, rocky section […]