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Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area

Pounding Mill, VA 24637, USA

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Place Types Park
Address Pounding Mill, VA 24637, USA
Coordinate 36.9940615,-81.7369938
Website Unknown
Rating 4.6
Compound Code X7V7+J6 Pounding Mill, Virginia

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Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area

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Phillip Coryat (05/25/2020)

A true gem. If you love true nature. This beautiful mountain is for you. Words do not do here justice.

Jeff Mullins (02/17/2020)

Great place to get away and enjoy the outdoors. Loved it. Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is the largest and most biologically diverse WMA in Virginia. It encompasses 25,477 acres of mountain forest along Clinch Mountain, contains Laurel Bed Lake, and spans elevations from 2200 feet along Big Tumbling Creek to its highest point at 4700 feet on Beartown Mountain. The WMA possesses a variety of habitats, attractive to a diversity of wildlife. The naturalist can wander through mature-growth forests, predominantly wooded by oak and hickory, rhododendron thickets, beaver ponds, a lake, meadows, shrublands, managed forests and prescribed burns, and even red spruce forest atop Beartown Mountain. The woodlands hold typical eastern hardwood breeders, such as wood thrush, and eastern wood-pewee. As elevation increases, so does the assortment of nesting avian species within these woodlands. Visitors should look for black-throated blue, black-throated green, chestnut-sided, cerulean, and magnolia warblers. Also keep an eye out for blue-headed vireo, rose-breasted grosbeak, and veery. Birders may want to hike into an area called the Muck Cove. In the summer, the Muck can be particularly productive for birders in search of golden-winged warbler.Jeff Mullins Photography Adventures. Happy Hiking!

Pablo Gonzalez (08/14/2017)

If you love the outdoors, this is the place for you. Great area to hike, fish, hunt, primitive camping and enjoy nature. Very well stocked from April to September in order to ensure great success for any angler level.nI just learned there is an specific section for handicap people, allowing everyone to enjoy fishing. Love their hearts for thinking on everyone!

Stiffler Wilson (03/16/2017)

I love this place my family has been going for generations and I go at least once a year since I was 4 years old even if your just looking to camp and relax in actual natural beauty to unplug and get away from how technical the world has become awesome place to just get away

John Akers (02/05/2017)

The closest you can get to seeing Virginia forest as it would have been 200 yrs ago. Beautiful scenery and excellent opportunities for hunters and fishermen. In spring and early summer from daybreak til the sun hits the water you can catch trout almost every cast in the lake. Using a small bronze colored spoon or spinner in the upper end has always been a consistent method, but once the fog lifts from the water the trout stop hitting. As for smallmouth bass ive had success using a rapala minnow (reddish orange) around the old dead trees in the upper end. There are lots of salamanders this color in the lake so the closer you can match their color and size the better they work. As for fishing the creek they do a good job of distributing the trout and stocking a lot of nice keeper size fish. Its not uncommon to see trophy sized fish on a stringer. Hope this helps anyone going to cmwma the first time.

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