Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area is a national recreation area in the

Monongahela National Forest The Monongahela National Forest is a U.S. National Forest, national forest located in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, US. It protects over of federally managed land within a proclamation boundary that includes much of the Po ...

of eastern

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. The national recreation area protects three prominent West Virginia landmarks: *

Spruce Knob Spruce Mountain, located in eastern West Virginia, is the highest ridge of the Allegheny Mountains. The whale-backed ridge extends for only from northeast to southwest, but several of its peaks exceed in elevation. The summit, Spruce Knob (), ...

, the highest point in West Virginia (and the highest of the

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) with a summit elevation of 4,863 feet (1482 m). *

Seneca Rocks Seneca Rocks is a large cliff, crag and local landmark in Pendleton County, West Virginia, Pendleton County in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, United States. The south peak is the only peak inaccessible except by technical rock climbing ...

, a 900-foot (270 m) high

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crag popular with rock climbers. * Smoke Hole Canyon, a canyon along the

South Branch Potomac River The South Branch Potomac River has its River source, headwaters in northwestern Highland County, Virginia, near Hightown, Virginia, Hightown along the eastern edge of the Allegheny Front. After a river distance of ,U.S. Geological Survey. Nationa ...

. Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area was established by an act of the

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on September 28, 1965, as the first national recreation area in a

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, so it is administered by the

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*Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area is a location in Fallout 76

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Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area official site
Protected areas of Grant County, West Virginia National recreation areas of the United States Protected areas of Pendleton County, West Virginia Protected areas of West Virginia Protected areas established in 1965 1965 establishments in West Virginia {{PotomacHighlandsWV-geo-stub

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