Hiking - Blue Hole/ Jenkinsburg
Description
This area includes a local swimming hole and access for whitewater on the Cheat. This area has its good and bad points. The actual Blue Hole (upstream on the Big Sandy Creek) is a beautiful swimming hole. The area around the Jenkinsburg Bridge has been rehabilitated from a trashy muddy mess to a gravel parking lot with boulders and a gate to keep vehicles from driving down to the river. However, many trashed campsites continue to dot the woods around the area. Mountain Streams and Trails (a local whitewater company) owns this area and allows private use of the site, but make sure your use is proper so the relationship continues to be good (park in the parking lot, do not camp in the lot, carry out your trash, be courteous to other users). Be aware that there are times (usually on weekends and nighttime) that this area is inundated by locals and college students drinking and partying.
Directions from Morgantown
Take Rt. 7 To Masontown. Left (east) on CR 23 and then veer to the left onto Bull Run Rd (CR 21). After a few miles, this turns into a gravel road and heads down into the canyon. At the bottom of the canyon is the Jenkinsburg bridge and Blue Hole.
Travel Time:45 min
Activities: Swimming Hole, Camping, Whitewater, Fishing
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ORC Resources: Book - "Day Trips with a Splash, Northeastern Swimming Holes"
