<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Climbing </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Easiest route </Th> <Td> Drive - up via FR 104 </Td> </Tr> <P> Spruce Knob, at 4,863 feet (1,482 m), is the highest point in the state of West Virginia and the summit of Spruce Mountain, the highest peak in the Allegheny Mountains . </P> <P> The summit of Spruce Knob has a definite alpine feel, much more so than most other mountains of the Southern Appalachians . The upper few hundred feet are covered in a dense spruce forest, a relic boreal forest environment similar to those found in northern New England and Canada . The summit is accessible both via trails and a paved Forest Service road, and is crowned with a stone lookout tower amid a mixture of boulder fields, meadows and trees . A handicap - accessible nature trail half a mile (0.8 km) long circles the topmost part of the mountain . High west winds near the summit have gnarled the spruce there like Krummholz, flagged with limbs only on their leeward (eastward) side . </P>

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