Budget-Friendly Stays near Bear Rocks Preserve

Rooms, cabins and campsites under 120 dollars a night, including state park campgrounds and independent motels on the US routes. Rates drop further midweek and outside October.

Bear Rocks Preserve is a Nature Conservancy tract of about 480 acres at the northern edge of Dolly Sods in Grant County, on the lip of the Allegheny Front. Wind-stunted spruce, sandstone outcrops and heath barrens sit above a 3,000-foot drop toward the South Branch valley, and it is the most photographed sunrise spot in the Potomac Highlands. Forest Road 75 reaches the parking area on rough gravel.