Allegheny Trail
West Virginia
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0.3 mi
Distance
171 ft
Gain
7 min
Time
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What we do know
Inside Monongahela National Forest
2 managing-area boundaries mapped — agency alerts for them feed this page automatically.
Boundary data
What's missing
No access route mapped
We don't yet know which road reaches this trailhead, so we can't tell you if it's gated.
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Allegheny Trail
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Elevation & route
- Distance
- 0.3 mi
- Elevation gain
- 171 ft
- Elevation loss
- 171 ft
- Highest point
- 3,371 ft
- Lowest point
- 3,252 ft
Photos
Directions & GPX
Permits & access
- Managing agency
- State Department of Natural Resources
About this trail
Allegheny Trail is a short out-and-back hike in West Virginia covering 0.6 miles with 171 feet of elevation gain. The trail reaches a maximum elevation of 3,371 feet.
Facts about this trail
The climb
- Starts at
- 3,356 ft
- High point
- 3,371 ft
- Total climbing
- 171 ft
- Total descent
- 171 ft
- Steepest stretch
- 12% grade around mile 0.2 on the way out
- Length (round trip)
- 0.6 mi
- Shape
- Out and back
Source: Roamze elevation profile and trail geometry (DEM samples along the mapped route)
Where it is
- Cheat Ranger District · Ranger district
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park · State park
- Monongahela National Forest · National forest
- Managed by
- State Department of Natural Resources
Conditions
Active alerts for Cheat Ranger District as of Oct 9, 2026:
Forest Road 18 Closure for Public Health and Safety
critical · posted Oct 2, 2026
Source: USFS forest alerts
Nearby
- Back Hollow TrailHiking0.5 mi
- Adt - West Virginia - Seg 2Hiking0.5 mi
- Club Run TrailHiking0.5 mi
- Promised Land TrailHiking0.8 mi
- Blackwater Falls State ParkRock climbing6.7 mi
- Pendleton PointRock climbing6.9 mi
- Dolly Sods RegionRock climbing8.6 mi
- Red Creek CampgroundCamping8.7 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
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