Qualla: Cedar Creek State Park

Cedar Creek State Park: Introduction

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. On Saturdays in summer, you can walk into the Pine Run One Room School at Cedar Creek State Park and sit at a desk that someone else sat at in 1925. The desks are original. The potbellied stove in the corner is original. The blackboard is original. So is the wood smell, which the Pine Run School acquired sometime around the Coolidge administration and has held onto ever since. The state of West Virginia restored the schoolhouse and moved it to the park as a small interpretive site, and the result is the kind of frozen-in-time space that, on a quiet Saturday morning, can put a visitor squarely into a moment a century ago.

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Cedar Creek State Park: The Park

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Tim Kiser (Wikipedia user Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 3.0. Cedar Creek State Park covers 2,588 acres in Gilmer County, about four miles south of Glenville. It was established in 1955, making it a relative latecomer to the West Virginia state park system. The park sits in the rolling country of the Little Kanawha River drainage - not high...

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Cedar Creek State Park: The Schoolhouse

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Pine Run One Room School originally stood in neighboring Lewis County. When the consolidated school districts of the 1950s and 1960s closed the small rural schools - a trend that swept through Appalachia and erased most of the surviving one-room schoolhouses - Pine Run was on...

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Cedar Creek State Park: The Pioneer Cabin

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. The campground check-in station at Cedar Creek is housed in a restored log cabin that dates from West Virginia's pioneer era. Like the schoolhouse, the cabin was moved from its original site and restored as an interpretive piece - a small architectural artifact of the kind of dwe...

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Cedar Creek State Park: Accessibility

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. West Virginia University assessed the park's accessibility for visitors with disabilities in 2005. The evaluation found the park to be generally accessible, though with some specific issues: signage problems in a parking lot, and ramps to the swimming pool and one of the ponds th...

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Cedar Creek State Park: What This Park Is For

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. Some state parks are wilderness destinations. Cedar Creek is something quieter. It is a place where families from Glenville and Sutton and Spencer come for the weekend, where school groups visit the schoolhouse on field trips, where retired teachers volunteer to walk visitors thr...

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