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Douthat State Park is a state park located in the Allegheny Mountains in Virginia. It is in Bath County and Alleghany County . The park is 4,545 acres (18 km 2 ) [ 1 ] total with a 50-acre (20 ha) lake, making it the third-largest Virginia state park after Pocahontas State Park and Fairy Stone State Park .
Virginia opened its entire state park system on 15 June 1936 as a six-park system. The six original state parks were Seashore State Park (now First Landing State Park), Westmoreland State Park, Staunton River State Park, Douthat State Park, Fairy Stone State Park, and Hungry Mother State Park. The park system now oversees 43 parks. [1
[7] 89% of Bath County is forest, with 51% in George Washington National Forest and 6% in Douthat State Park. The county is one of the 423 counties served by the Appalachian Regional Commission , [ 8 ] and it is identified as part of "Greater Appalachia" by Colin Woodard in his book American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional ...
Assateague Island National Seashore is a unit of the National Park Service system of the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located on the East Coast along the Atlantic Ocean in Maryland and Virginia, Assateague Island is the largest natural barrier island ecosystem in the Middle Atlantic states region that remains predominantly unaffected by human development.
Hungry Mother State Park is a state park in southwestern Virginia. Much of the land for Hungry Mother State Park was donated by local landowners to develop a new state park in Smyth County on Hungry Mother Creek. The park is one of the six original CCC parks that opened in June 1936. The park was added to the National Register of Historic ...
Shenandoah River Raymond R. "Andy" Guest Jr. State Park, known generally as Shenandoah River State Park, is a state park near the town of Bentonville, Virginia, United States. The park was established in 1994, and covers 1,619 acres (6.55 km 2 ) along the South Fork Shenandoah River . [ 1 ]
Fairystone Farms Wildlife Management Area is a 5,321-acre (21.53 km 2) Wildlife Management Area in Patrick and Henry counties, Virginia.Named for the fairy stones that are common in the area, it comprises several parcels surrounding much of Fairy Stone State Park and the Philpott Reservoir in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The parks merged in 1976 and became Twin Lakes State Park in 1986. In 1995, Virginia erected a marker to acknowledge his lawsuit's contribution to desegregating the park. [6] The marker reads: Prince Edward State Park for Negroes was established in 1950 one mile west on the site of the former Prince Edward Lake Recreation Area for Negroes.