In the Monongahela National Forest, near the site of the early 1900’s logging village of Old Spruce and Cass, Snowshoe Mountain Resort can be found at one of the highest elevations in West Virginia. Here, just a stone’s throw from the Virginia border, time and the elements have slowly fashioned a north facing, elliptical bowl some two miles wide by five miles long. From the near mile-high slopes of the rim to the clear, cold waters of Shaver’s Fork, residents of the forest – black bear, deer, beaver, bobcat, weasel, wild turkey, mink, fisher, native brook trout, and the Snowshoe Hare – roam the relatively untouched natural basin.
