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Cranberry Wildlife Management Area, West Virginia

159,534 acres of public ground, managed by WV Division of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Section and US Forest Service. 129 named streams run through it, of which 68 are designated trout water — 267.7 miles of it. It is in the state's huntable-land layer.

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This unit — the ground this page is about

Other public land — state, federal and county ground around it

USGS gauge — a gauge, coloured by what it reads 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 the state huntable public-land layer and PAD-US 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.

159,534 ac

public ground

249.3 square miles · 2 separate blocks

WV Division of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Section and US Forest Service

managing agency

National forest wildlife management area

129

named streams on it

528.7 miles · 68 designated trout

Access not recorded

public access

as recorded in the ownership file

Getting on it

PAD-US carries no access class for this unit. It is in the state's huntable layer, which is why it is here; what else 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.

Trout streams on this ground

Every named stream whose reaches touch this unit, longest first. 58 of them have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is WV DEP's designation of that stream, over the reaches it has classified. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.

Stream	Miles	Class	Now	Designation
Gauley River	90.8	untyped	—	Trout tailwater, Trout waters — part of an assessment unit, Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Laurel Run	40.0	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Williams River	35.1	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Cranberry River	25.2	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
North Fork Cherry River	18.1	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
South Fork Cherry River	17.1	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Big Laurel Creek	12.7	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Cherry River	11.6	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Big Run	11.1	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit, Trout waters — whole assessment unit
South Fork Cranberry River	10.6	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Middle Fork Williams River	10.4	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Hills Creek	9.2	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Mill Branch	9.2	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Dogway Fork	8.8	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Bear Run	7.3	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
North Fork Cranberry River	6.5	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Big Ditch Run	6.2	untyped	—	—
Barrenshe Run	4.8	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Laurel Branch	4.8	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Little Fork	4.7	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Sugar Creek	4.6	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Holcomb Run	4.4	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Bruffey Creek	4.3	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Beechy Run	4.2	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Lick Branch	4.0	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Red Run	3.7	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Enoch Branch	3.5	untyped	—	—
Spruce Run	3.5	untyped	—	—
Hunters Run	3.2	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Jackeman Run	3.2	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Morris Creek	2.9	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Price Glade Run	2.8	untyped	—	—
Craig Run	2.7	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Rough Run	2.6	untyped	—	—
Curtin Run	2.5	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
White Oak Fork	2.5	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Coal Siding Run	2.4	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Desert Branch	2.4	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Coats Run	2.3	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Foxtree Run	2.3	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Kens Creek	2.3	untyped	—	—
Sawyer Run	2.3	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Tumbling Rock Run	2.3	untyped	—	—
Upper Glade Run	2.3	untyped	—	—
Bee Run	2.2	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Birchlog Run	2.2	untyped	—	—
Adkins Rockhouse Branch	2.1	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Aldrich Branch	2.1	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Jonathan Run	2.1	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Little Bannock Shoals Run	2.0	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Buckheart Run	1.9	untyped	—	—
Charles Creek	1.9	untyped	—	—
Hinkle Branch	1.9	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Little Barrenshe Run	1.9	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Mill Run	1.9	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Queer Branch	1.9	untyped	—	—
Harris Siding Run	1.8	untyped	—	—
Laurel Run	1.8	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Left Branch North Fork Cherry River	1.8	untyped	—	—
McClintock Run	1.8	untyped	—	—
Rocklick Run	1.8	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Spice Run	1.8	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Upper Bannock Shoals Run	1.8	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Glade Run	1.7	untyped	—	—
Holcomb Creek	1.7	untyped	—	—
Joes Branch	1.7	untyped	—	—
Little Lick Run	1.7	untyped	—	—
Price Run	1.7	untyped	—	—
Slabcamp Branch	1.7	untyped	—	—
Buckeye Branch	1.6	untyped	—	—
Houselog Run	1.6	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Johnson Run	1.6	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Laurelly Branch	1.6	untyped	—	—
Spencer Run	1.6	untyped	—	—
Windy Run	1.6	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Cold Run	1.5	untyped	—	—
Left Fork North Fork Cranberry River	1.5	untyped	—	—
Little Beechy Run	1.5	untyped	—	—
Little Branch	1.4	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Upper Twin Branch	1.4	untyped	—	—
Bannock Shoals Run	1.3	untyped	—	—
Bishop Rockhouse Branch	1.3	untyped	—	—
Cashcamp Run	1.3	untyped	—	—
Gibson Run	1.3	untyped	—	—
Hacking Run	1.3	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Hell for Certain Branch	1.3	untyped	—	—
Little Bee Run	1.3	untyped	—	—
Lost Run	1.3	untyped	—	—
Armstrong Run	1.2	untyped	—	—
Carpenter Run	1.2	untyped	—	—
Hamrick Run	1.2	untyped	—	—
Hanging Rock Branch	1.2	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Hunting Run	1.2	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Lincamp Branch	1.2	untyped	—	—
Rabbit Run	1.2	untyped	—	—
Baldwin Branch	1.1	untyped	—	—
Coal Run	1.1	untyped	—	—
Little Laurel Run	1.1	untyped	—	—
Lower Twin Branch	1.1	untyped	—	—
Norton Run	1.1	untyped	—	—
Red Lick Run	1.1	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Big Lick Run	1.0	untyped	—	—
Bridge Creek	1.0	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Elbow Run	1.0	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Hateful Run	1.0	untyped	—	—
Little Hacking Run	1.0	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Little Laurel Branch	1.0	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Little Rough Run	1.0	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Music Run	1.0	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Big Swag Run	0.9	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Deacon Run	0.9	untyped	—	—
Fallen Timber Run	0.9	untyped	—	—
North Branch Middle Fork Williams River	0.9	untyped	—	—
Tenmile Branch	0.9	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Little Elbow Run	0.8	untyped	—	—
Little Lick Branch	0.8	untyped	—	—
Note Branch	0.8	untyped	—	—
Big Glady Run	0.7	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Billy Branch	0.7	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Little Red Run	0.7	untyped	—	—
Little Run	0.7	untyped	—	—
North Cove Run	0.7	untyped	—	Trout waters — part of an assessment unit
Epling Run	0.6	untyped	—	—
Little Glady Run	0.6	untyped	—	—
Sheets Gordon Run	0.6	untyped	—	—
Slick Rock Run	0.6	untyped	—	—
Camp 29 Run	0.5	untyped	—	Trout waters — whole assessment unit
Hammond Run	0.4	untyped	—	—
Slade Branch	0.4	untyped	—	—

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 ground is in West Virginia's huntable public-land layer as national forest wildlife management area, managed by WV Division of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Section and US Forest Service — 100% of the unit is covered by it. This app does not carry West Virginia's season dates yet, so there are none printed below — WVDNR publishes them, and that digest is what to check before you go. That the ground is huntable and that a season is open on it are two different facts, and only the first one is on this page.

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.

January

Little Black Stonefly

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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.