The largest of West Virginia’s state parks, at 10,100 acres, Watoga is also among the oldest, dating back to the first land acquisitions by the West Virginia Game and Fish Commission in the 1920s. The ...
CHARLESTON — Watoga State Park has become the first site in West Virginia to be designated a Dark Sky Park by the International Dark Sky Association, providing new opportunities for astronomy tourism ...
Discovering Watoga’s synchronous fireflies In 2019, Watoga State Park officials and community volunteers banded together to transform the park into a dark-sky haven. Spanning 10,000 acres and ...