Needleseye Park

Needleseye Park is a 281- acre tract of permanently protected land operating under a conservation easement via the WV Land Trust owned by the City of Oak Hill in Fayette County. Needleseye Park is a multi-use municipal park and offers a wide variety of activities to the visitor including hiking, mountain biking, rock climbing, disc golfing, bird watching and nature viewing. The terrain and topography vary from easy and rolling to steep, rocky and technical. With such a broad array of recreational activities available in Needleseye Park, it is a unique Park that shouldn’t be missed.

Currently one trailhead and parking area allow visitors to gain access to the park located off Terry Ave and Needleseye Rd. The trailhead parking can be found best by using Google Maps and entering “Needleseye Park”.

A small trailhead kiosk gives the visitor park information that is important to the visitor. Currently a “blue” blazed trail from the trailhead is the primary trail that will gain access into the interior of the park. This blue trail goes to the namesake Needleseye rock formation into the western territory of the park and beyond to another notable rock corridor called the Lion’s Den. The distance from the parking area to the Needleseye rock formation is ½ mile. The distance from the parking area to the Lion’s Den is ¾ mile.

The summer and fall of 2024 should bring much anticipated development of the park with an updated trailhead parking area with additional visitor parking, a 2-stall restroom facility and a large trailhead kiosk. Additionally, 8 miles of single-track multi-use mountain biking trails are being contracted for installation and an 18-hole disc golf course is slated for completion. Rock climbing and bouldering is prevalent in the park on the vast cliff line and boulders with continued work to provide the safest climbing experience.