I was thinking 💭 about some of the things I want to see and at my autumn West Virginia trip:

• Probably once again drive down to Towanda Penna for the first and last night of the trip. There is a small Forestry Department rustic campground 🌲 that’s ten dollars a night and it will be largely empty this time of year.
• From there I will head down to West Virginia via a combination of Interstate 99 and local roads when I get bored with the expressway 🚙 and want to see the country, the mountains and the farms, 🚜 hop on the blue highways.
• In West Virginia I’ll spend a couple of nights in the Cannan Heights Camping ⛺. I want to visit the Cannan Wildlife Refuge and so some birding 🐦 and also Blackwater Falls.
• I want to drive up Spruce Mountain 🗻 the highest peak in West Virginia and maybe camp at those rustic sites outside of Job.
• I want to spend at least two night or maybe roadside camping outside of Dolly Sods 🚶 and get a day hiking in at Dolly Sods.
• I want to visit the New River Gorge and drive both over the bridge and do the Gorge Road. 🌉
• I want to visit the Mount Storm Coal Plant 🏭 and dip my feet into the always warm from thermal pollution Mount Storm Reservoir and drive part of Cooridor H.
• I want to spend some time, maybe two nights at Camp Run Campground, ⛺ located in a wash of Shenandoah Mountain and poke some more around the Sweedlin Valley.

This year I have very little interest in dwelling in Pennsylvania or visiting Virginia. I want to be places away from the crowds and the tourists 👪 where I can enjoy the wilderness without the crowds. Maybe one night when I visit the New River Gorge I’ll have to stay in a developed campground but the rest will be pretty close to wildness camping.