Wayne National Forest — Attraction in Murray City

This place is beautiful, wide open, and peaceful. It's also a very good place for deer hunting. Especially when you are freezing to death at 6:30am. Just remember, the deer may or may not show up for you. Even though you've already spent about a hundred dollars just in licenses, tags, and other throw-away supplies, you are sure to be kept waiting, and waiting, and hearing other gun shots in the distance, or near by. Fortunately, there is cell phone signal, so that your comrades in arms can send you pictures of their lucky 10 point kill just over the next knoll. By that time you'll wish you had brought something other than toilet paper to wipe your dripping-snotty nose with. Finally, when the sun breaks through, and provides a little warmth, you lay backwards on the soft forest ground, and wake up 30 minutes later, only to spook the perfect doe away, as you groggily wonder if you should pursue it, or hope that it will stop and come back to say hi to you and your "little friend." Dang it! Fortunately, there's beer waiting for you back at the lodge. Yeah,...

Interwoven with plains,meadows new growth and old growth forests.Pine,white oak,red oak,hickory and walnuts have exceptional features of planted sectional development.The peaceful nature represents abundance of wildlife. The nature preserves have lead to several new species recently identified, 1 new wetlands has,purchased from the Rutherford estate,1992 has 189 new species of insects,near Monday Creek. ATV trails,I learned to ride on after coal mines abandoned them in 1950's,60's,70's,environmental constraints were enforced and slowly but surely, The mines Reclamation Act,brought fishing back to streams contaminated by coal mining waste runoff. Wayne National Forest currently is an asset to the local communities that made their towns and cities ATV friendly. Thanks to everyone involved with the development, planning, and timely efforts for our future generations to be proudly represented in passing this...

I was blessed growing up in this area and now my son is starting a family of his own on property that at one time belonged to his great great grandma "mommy mabel" hill-mayle, widow of Charles poppy Charlie mayle.. The whole area has been mined..with a rough economy, many moved away and what was once thriving towns is some crumbling foundations in the woods... There is plenty to see and do...hike, bike, trails that can even hang up the biggest of trucks..feel like riding your dirt bike all day , aroundbthw Marietta run area is plenty of pipeline and trails to discover... The strip mines in the area are stocked with large mouth bass for the avid Fisher.. Or if your a risk taker, after a long day of activities, a dip into the cold refreshing water of one of the old pits will wake you up.. Wayne national has it all and the area I'm describing is just a...