Every organization we link to: local tourism offices, the state and federal agencies that manage the land, the nonprofits and clubs that keep access open, and the universities doing the research.
Know before you go
- The par-3 course is a good option for mixed-ability groups
- Lodge and cabin packages available on site
What you can do here
Two layouts sit above the Bluestone Canyon here: an 18-hole course and a par-3. The par-3 is the useful one for mixed-ability groups and for anyone with half a day rather than a full one. Rates follow the state park schedule, and lodge and cabin packages are available on site if you want to play twice.
Overlooks here
The courses are part of Pipestem Resort State Park, which sits above the Bluestone Canyon, but no trail mileage is published on the golf side of the record. Walking here is whatever the resort park offers beyond the fairways. Ask at the lodge for the park trail map, and note that canyon rim and canyon floor are different undertakings.
Overlooks here
Local organizations
Nothing about water is published for the golf side of this park, which sits on the rim above the Bluestone Canyon rather than on the river. Anything you fish will be down in the canyon or elsewhere in the resort park. Ask the lodge desk what is accessible and how long the descent takes, and bring a WVDNR license either way.
Overlooks here
Local organizations
Guides, gear and lodging near Pipestem Resort Golf
Place-level placement for operators within range of this trailhead, put-in or crag.
List your business hereNearby in the New River Gorge
New River Gorge Bridge
A 3,030-foot steel arch carrying US 19 some 876 feet above the New River — for decades the longest single-span arch bridge in the world, and still the image most people carry of West Virginia.
Endless Wall Trail
A 2.4-mile point-to-point trail along the gorge rim through hemlock and rhododendron, crossing Fern Creek on a footbridge and reaching Diamond Point, an exposed rock outcrop with a view up the gorge to the bridge.
Long Point Trail
About 3.2 miles round trip on mostly level old roadbed to a rock promontory below the rim, which provides the most-photographed view of the New River Gorge Bridge.
Grandview
1,400 feet above a horseshoe bend in the New, with a seven-mile view up the gorge — the widest perspective anywhere in the park.
Sandstone Falls
The largest waterfall on the New River — not tall, but 1,500 feet wide, spilling across the full breadth of the river between islands at the point where the gorge begins to open.
Kaymoor Miners Trail
A steep descent from the gorge rim to the ruins of the Kaymoor One coal mine and processing plant, including 821 wooden steps down the former haulage incline.
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.