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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
A road climbed the mountain behind the long-gone Dunglen Hotel to one of the most inaccessible ghost towns in W.Va. A little-known, practically inaccessible ghost town in the mountains of southern West Virginia may soon be open to those willing to hike there — once the National Park Service opens a new recreational trail.Little remains today of Dun Glen, perched 700 feet above the New River, perhaps the most unapproachable of many former coal-mining camps that line the walls of the New River Gorge.A 1913 USGS map shows the town of Dun Glen as it appears alongside Swell Knob.A stone powder-house, a few foundation stones, and a remote cemetery are among the few obvious ruins that remain here in the shade of Sewell Knob, lingering silently in an upland forest through which few people now walk.Once accessible only by a tramway and primitive wagon roads, its last resident may have left by about 1935, according to Andrew Steel, a geographical information specialist employed by the park service and one of few people to have visited the ruins in recent years.The park service is engaged in building a trail from the valley below near Thurmond, West Virginia, into the upland area adjacent to the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve, the chief recreation center for the Boy Scouts of America and site of its national Jamboree.The trail will access the area near the Dun Glen ruins and particularly near the more remote Dun Glen cemetery, a landmark that Steel said he
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