I told a clerk at the Blennerhasset Hotel that some of the Whipple Section - Buckeye Trail (North Country Trail) do have a taste for upscale lodging and that im aware that day hikers have lodged there in the past with it being in Downtown Parkersburg and 18.2 miles away.
Whipple Section is one of 26 on the 1,440mi Buckeye Trail and one of 19 that carries the 4,500mi North Country National Scenic Trail. It's off-road trail is routed through the Marietta Unit of the Wayne National Forest on a dirt surface. After the snow melts, it can get muddy out there.
The on-road links the Marietta Unit to the AEP Recreation Lands in eastern Morgan County by way of Macksburg of Washington County on lesser used township and County roads. After winter, some of these can get torn up by 4x4 vehicles.
For those of you who are using lodging amenities when hiking the Whipple Section, I recommend that you keep an old cotton men's undershirt that you can submerge in any water (perhaps from a steam) and wipe off your muddy boots with it.
But at Blennerhasset, I made the suggestion that they might want to look into getting a boot bristle. On the 6,800mi American Discovery Trail (which passes through Parkersburg), those hikers will probably reach the hotel on foot, having been on pavement, or local bike trails for miles. So unless they drive in from the Chesterhill of Morgan County (where its on road) or Veto Lake/ Vincent area, it's likely that ADT hikers will probably just knock off their boots enroute, where BT/NCT hikers might go straight from the dirt surface to the car.
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