Cranberry Glades

Cranberry Glades
Fog over Cranberry Glades boardwalk
Location of Cranberry Glades Botanical Area in West Virginia
Location	Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States
Coordinates	38°12′11″N 80°15′59″W / 38.20306°N 80.26639°W / 38.20306; -80.26639
Area	750 acres (300 ha)[1]
Elevation	3,400 ft (1,000 m)
Operator	Monongahela National Forest
Website	Cranberry Glades Botanical Area

Cranberry Glades—also known simply as The Glades—are a cluster of five small, boreal-type bogs in southwestern Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. This area, in the Allegheny Mountains at about 3,400 feet (1,000 m), is protected as the Cranberry Glades Botanical Area, part of the Monongahela National Forest. This site is the headwaters of the Cranberry River, a popular trout stream, and is adjacent to the nearly 50,000-acre (200 km²) Cranberry Wilderness.

The Glades are a 750-acre (3.0 km²)^[1] grouping of peat bogs resembling some Canadian bogs. The gladed land is highly acidic and supports plants commonly found at higher latitudes, including cranberries, sphagnum moss, skunk cabbage, and two carnivorous plants (purple pitcher plant and sundew). The Glades serve as the southernmost home of many of the plant species found there.