Dolly Sods is a wilderness area in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia, which is
not far of a drive from the Washington DC area.
In this video, we will show you what we did during our visit to the area.
We first hiked a trail called Blackbird Knob, which is right by the campground.
Because the road in this area isn’t paved, it was nice not having to drive to go on a
hike.
The trail starts off with this beautiful boardwalk area, which soon changes to a forest.
The hike is fairly easy in most parts, and you are rewarded with gorgeous, open views
such as this every once in a while.
One of my favorite parts of this trail is the point where you have to cross the Red
Creek.
It was fun to try and maintain balance and not to get wet.
Be sure to bring an extra pair of shoes for after the hike, just in case you do get your
feet wet!
One tip if you just want a quick campfire to boil some water or heat up some food, is
to collect leftover logs or burned wood from fire pits of previous campers that have left
the area.
We find that this is always enough for us, and we almost never have to buy firewood.
I think our most memorable sight from this trip was watching the sunrise at Bear Rocks.
It was extremely cold, but worth the view!
Be sure to get up very early, though, especially if you are driving from the campground, as
you cannot drive too fast on the unpaved road.
In the distance, this guy taking pictures with his dog by his side.
On our next visit, we will try to get up there to, and take a timelapse video as well.
We visited Dolly Sods last year, sometime in mid-October, and we liked this place so
much that we decided to go there again this year.
It will be very interesting to compare our experiences.
And we will probably see the same things as last time in addition maybe go on another
hike as we will spend an extra day here.
Yeah we actually started hiking close to Bear Rocks, but there was so much frost during
that morning before the actual hike started that we spent so much time actually taking
pictures of it and didn't finish the hike and didn't start it so we plan to start that
hike this year and see how it goes.
And here is one picture showing the frost covered plants before the ice melted.
Yeah the area is very rich in blueberries, and the blueberry leaves turned red, and as
you can see in this image, the scenery was quite amazing.
And as we mentioned, the area is only a few hours drive from Washington DC or the Northern
Virginia area.
We would recommend visiting this place sometimes during the weekdays because, as Kristina mentioned,
because of its proximity to DC, it gets pretty crowded very fast.
We were there during Monday and Tuesday, and there weren’t that many people around.
Yeah there were quite a few people in the beginning when we first arrived but they left
soon afterwards.
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more.
Yeah and we also visited other places in West Virginia, of which we plan to post more videos
of, so stay tuned!