Smoke Hole Caverns and Lost River Campground Review | Wild and Wonderful West Virginia!

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We’re starting off 2024, and it’s kinda like a house on fire, or a forest fire, but certainly not a calming campfire…
While on our way to Lost River Campground, we notice many forest fires bouncing through the National Forests in Virginia. As we made our way down I81 we kept seeing them everywhere. We had no idea what we were heading into.
When we reached our campground, there was talk of an evacuation. We quickly realized we were in no immediate danger, but we were troubled nonetheless. This episode will include a brief tour of the campground and its amenities. It’s actually a really nice and affordable campground, one we will definitely revisit in the future.
Our Itinerary was to include several hikes at Lost River State Park, however, over 1,000 acres of this park was claimed by the forest fires. Instead, we chose to head over to Smoke Hole Caverns. This is a rather touristy attraction, but quite fun nonetheless. The cave was used by Native Americans for smoking meats, thus the name, Smoke Hole. I was later used to make moonshine during prohibition.
The history of the cave is fascinating, yet the geology of the area trumps everything. Here, Pangea collided, and flipped the cave 90 degrees; this allows visitors to walk on the walls!
Next Week: North Fork Mountain Trail
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[@coleswanger]

Clutch catching the helicopter filling up with water to fight those fires. Always be prepared to pivot when your plans include the outdoors is something I learned a long time ago and this pivot was just as interesting. Love me some caverns!

[@mountainsintomemories]

Yeah; between kids, dogs, weather, and fires; you never know what can happen. That’s why I try not to tell future plans on the channel, don’t want to jinx things, or promise something that won’t be delivered.
Thanks for watching, see you soon!

[@carolpritt2751]

Look at him, all big already and climbing steps!

[@mountainsintomemories]

He does pretty well most of the time, we’ll make a hiker out of him yet!
Thanks for watching!

[@ronthompson3525]

That Smoke Hole tour looked awesome. Something to look into seeing.

[@mountainsintomemories]

Smoke Hole is definitely worth visiting and it’s near Seneca Rocks and so much other cool stuff. Very nice area, more of it in next week’s video. Thanks so much for watching!

[@dayhikedave]

Pretty cool 👍
You always manage to get into some interesting situations.
Keep on adventuring. I love watching. 👍🙂🙏

[@mountainsintomemories]

Definitely more adventures to come! Maybe even some more interesting situations!
See you soon, God bless!

[@MaksimOutdoors]

Great video guys, the whole wildfire situation sucks but it looks like you made the best of it, great views of the blackhawks filling up and the cave tour was quite interesting, your channel is going all in on WV! Cya on the next one.

[@mountainsintomemories]

West By God Virginia really has it all! I thought the cave tour was really interesting, definitely a good rainy day activity. Thanks for watching! Cya Soon!

[@campoutwestus]

That cavern was really cool. I've never seen so many interesting formations before. Thanks for sharing!

[@mountainsintomemories]

Yes it was a really beautiful cave, full of interesting stuff. Definitely hard to get it on camera, stuff like this just has to be seen in person.
Thanks for watching!

[@LumberjackPa]

RVing seems like a lot of fun! The camp seemed very nice and I enjoyed watching as you went through the cave. I have never seen fish in a cave before that was neat! Thanks for sharing, and see you soon.

[@mountainsintomemories]

We really like camping with the RV, it’s a good way to bring kids along with little to worry about. Makes our lives easier! See you soon indeed!

[@3degreeimages]

Great vid. Loved the area (aside from the wildfire). Loved the caves.

[@mountainsintomemories]

West Virginia is full of awesome places, a very beautiful state! Thanks for watching!