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Bluestone National Scenic River, West Virginia

3,034 acres of public ground, managed by National Park Service. 2 named streams run through it, of which 2 are designated trout water — 42.3 miles of it.

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This unit — the ground this page is about, drawn as the ownership file records it
Other public land — the state, federal and county ground around it — most of it has a page of its own
USGS gauge — a thermometer standing in this unit's water, coloured by what it is reading right now
Water temperature — the colour of every stream on this ground

50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. The colour is nothing at all: WV DEP publishes no thermal classification, so every stream on this map draws grey. The gauge dots are the one exception and they read live. Grey is every stream here, for the reason above.

The unit in numbers

Assembled from ownership records, dissolved into one block: the section lines a state forest is surveyed in are not a fact about access, so they are not drawn and not counted twice.

3,034 ac
public ground
4.7 square miles · 2 separate blocks
National Park Service
managing agency
Wild and Scenic River
2
named streams on it
42.3 miles · 2 designated trout
Access not recorded
public access
as recorded in the ownership file

Getting on it

The ownership file carries no access class for this unit. It is public ground; what you may do on it is the managing agency's to say.

This unit is 2 separate blocks of ground rather than one, which is normal for public land held in surveyed sections: the blocks are not contiguous. The map above draws every one of them, and the ground between two of them belongs to somebody else. Boundaries, closures and anything posted on the ground are National Park Service's to say.

Trout streams on this ground

Every named stream whose reaches touch this unit, longest first. The class column is WV DEP's designation of that stream. It is not a temperature: this state publishes none, so every row reads untyped in the thermal column. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.

Stream Miles Class Now Designation
Bluestone River 32.4 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Little Bluestone River 9.9 untyped — Trout waters — whole assessment unit

The miles are the whole stream's, not the miles inside this boundary: a river does not stop at a property line and neither does its page.

Hunting

This unit is not in the huntable public-land layer this app paints, so this page does not publish seasons for it. That is not the same as "hunting is closed here" — it means the layer the app draws from does not carry this ground, and the managing agency is the one to ask.

Access sites and amenities

No public access site we have on record stands on this unit. We hold no trail or campground data at all, so what is here is what the state publishes as launches and walk-in access, and none of it falls on this ground.

When to come

The hatch calendar for the Virginia mountains, which is the region this unit's centre falls in — the same regions the app's hatch panel uses. It is a regional record, not a survey of this ground: nobody has counted insects unit by unit. Year-round records (midges, scuds, sculpins) are left out.

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Nothing seasonal on the water.

Regulations

Nothing on this page is a regulation. The fishing rules that apply to the water on this ground — the types, the seasons, the size limits and the gear restrictions — are on the West Virginia fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns.

Watersheds it lies in

The subbasins this ground drains into. Each one has the whole basin's water on it.

Public land nearby

The nearest other blocks of public ground, centre to centre. Public land does not tile a state the way watersheds do, so this is nearness rather than adjacency.