Best Friends and West Virginia

Various Ramblings

Jul 23

I was lucky enough to visit beautiful West Virginia earlier this summer with two of my favorite people. We stayed at a super cute cabin (thanks John) in the Seneca Rocks, which served as a great central location to see all of the gorgeous places we had on our list. Come along and explore the beauty of West Virginia - a state I’ll gladly revisit any chance I get. (Actually, I’ll be back there in August, stay tuned!)

Blackwater Falls State Park

We started with a quick visit to Blackwater Falls State Park. It’s a short walk down to the falls, but a longer walk up, HA! There are a few places to view the falls on the way down, I recommend stopping at each one of them on the way back up. There’s a Little Caesars in a gas station nearby, if you need a snack on the way home.

Moist Peaches - Dolly Soddin’

While on a bridge, we decided to take our super awesome band photos for our upcoming, debut album. We are the Moist Peaches and our album out later this year is Dolly Soddin’ inspired by West Virginia. Tour coming in 2026.

Spruce Knob

After exploring around the base of Seneca Rocks, and taking cover photos for our new album, we wanted to go up to Spruce Knob because it was the highest point, or at least that was my reason. My buddy John was driving his car, and we took some winding roads to some more winding roads, only now gravel, and eventually made our way to the top parking lot. To say the trip was a journey would be accurate. We laughed, we were scared, we didn’t die. I recall moments of wondering if we were going to drive off the edge, but also I was the guy saying “it’s just a few more miles” when I really wasn’t sure. After this, we went on to drive to Dolly Sods. We took the most scenic way, through what felt like 100 miles of private roads, and then more winding roads through the hills.

Dolly Sods Wilderness

After what felt like the longest but coolest drive past many “plantation” homes, we made our way to the Dolly Sods Wilderness. We made it to one area, and found ourselves traveling on yet another gravel road with giant potholes. We drove and drove and found a turn out. We went to the overlook and the bugs swarmed us so we went back to the car, only after Andrea thought she lost her phone. We found a roadside map, but it was clear the “you are here” was not on the map. SO, we kept pushing down this road. At this point, it had been all day and we were losing hope and contemplating turning around. At that moment, we found another sign near a trailhead and chose a destination on the map to try. I was able to get some service and see that if we went that way a few more miles we could at least exit down to a main road and get the hell home to rest. We get to the end where we would have to turn out and we see a bunch of cars. We park, put on the bug spray, and followed a trail over some big rocks that got bigger and bigger. THIS WAS IT, we found what we wanted without even realizing it at the moment. We had made it to the Bear Rocks Preserve and the Sundew/Bear Rocks trail. It was a magical moment, so here are some photos of us on top of the world as the sun set behind us.