View from McKeever Lodge - Pipestem State Park

 “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are."

― Gretel Ehrlich

Our view from McKeever Lodge at Pipestem State Park during our 

visit last weekend (October 4-6, 2024).

Pipestem is one of our favorite places to visit. 

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Autumn Colors - Pipestem State Park - West Virginia

 "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons" 

– Jim Bishop

Autumn is beginning to show its colors at 

Pipestem State Park in Pipestem, West Virginia.

10-05-24

Morning Has Broken - Sunrise at Pipestem State Park

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"Morning has broken like the first morning 

Blackbird has spoken like the first bird 

Praise for the singing 

Praise for the morning 

Praise for them springing 

fresh from the world" 

- Cat Stevens 

Long Branch Lake at Pipestem State Park

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“One of the things that makes you feel good is to get out into nature—go walking, go hiking, go swimming in the ocean, or wherever you live, in a river or a lake, experience the beauty of America, experience how America is such a sacred place. Everywhere you go in this land, our people have been there and they have said, “This place is sacred.” 

 ― Charles Alexander Eastman, Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience  

Long Branch Lake 

Pipestem State Park 

Pipestem, West Virginia

Pipestem State Park - Autumn Overlook

"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"

- Hal Borland

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View from the FireTower - Pipestem State Park

"To see the Summer Sky 

Is Poetry, 

though never in a Book it lie – 

True Poems flee –" 

~ Emily Dickinson

View from the Fire Tower at Pipestem State Park

Pipestem, West Virginia 

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The Grand Finale - Autumn at Pipestem State Park

“Fall ......The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” 

 ― Lauren DeStefano

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Fog In the Mountains - Pipestem State Park

“The mountains are calling and I must go.” 

 ― John Muir

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The Fog Rises Over the Bluestone Gorge

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

- John Muir

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