Mount Porte Crayon is the remote headwaters to three drainages and is the highest point on the Eastern Continental Divide in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
Mount Porte Crayon is one of the wildest and least explored high mountains in West Virginia. This rugged preserve sits near the 4,770-foot summit on the south slope of Mount Porte Crayon, the sixth-highest point in West Virginia.
Mount Porte Crayon was at one time poised to be the greatest ski resort south of Vermont. Plans fizzled, but the legend of Mount Porte Crayon’s skiable terrain survived. Some say the top of the mountain gets far more snow than nearby Canaan Valley, …
It's a wild, rugged, cold beast of a peak, one of West Virginia's least accessible mountains, with an unusual name to match its unusual scape: Mount Porte Crayon.