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Pete Dye Golf Club
A private club near Bridgeport built on a reclaimed coal mine, routed past preserved mine structures and through a former haulage tunnel. Consistently ranked among the strongest courses in the state and one of the more unusual Dye designs anywhere.
Know before you go
- Private club; play is by member invitation or limited guest arrangement
- The routing incorporates original mine buildings and a tunnel between holes
What you can do here
Play is by member invitation or a limited guest arrangement, since this is a private club rather than a resort course you can book. What makes it worth the trouble is the site: a reclaimed coal mine, with original mine buildings standing in the routing and a former haulage tunnel between holes. The season runs April through October.
Guides, gear and lodging near Pete Dye Golf Club
Place-level placement for operators within range of this trailhead, put-in or crag.
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Mon River Rail-Trail System
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Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Area
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Big Bear Lake Trail Center
A long-established private trail center in Preston County with dozens of miles of cross-country singletrack and doubletrack around a lake, plus camping.
Cathedral State Park
133 acres of virgin eastern hemlock, the last substantial stand of old-growth mixed forest remaining in West Virginia.
West Virginia has roughly 1.5 million acres of public land and a handful of places that carry almost all of the attention. The consequence is that a great deal of very good ground sits nearly empty, usually for one of three reasons: nobody has heard of it, the road in is gated or rough, or it is undeveloped and has nothing to advertise. Those are the places below — of them across regions.