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Weis Knob II

Near Davis, West Virginia

Historical profile · Updated September 5, 2026 · 1 reader comment

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Near Davis, West Virginia, Weis Knob II was one of the early ski areas in the Canaan Valley region. The area was opened by Bob Bartin (also spelled Barton in recollections), with dates varying in the historical record: the profile places its opening in 1959 and closing around 1965-66, while ongoing research suggests an earlier opening and closure as late as 1968. The area later became associated with what is now Whitegrass.

Details of Weis Knob II remain part of West Virginia’s developing lost-area history. Research indicates that Bartin moved the operation from the site now known as CVR Meadows I and planted pine trees there, some of which still protect the meadows from the wind. Its brief operation came before the state opened Canaan Valley Resort in 1971, during an interim period when the Governor’s Cup Race was held on the sled run at Blackwater Falls State Park. Accounts of the area and race history remain incomplete, but Weis Knob II’s story helps document the region’s early, evolving ski culture.

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Kim Williams, President of the Snow Sports Museum of West Virginia, provided info about a ski area that later became today’s Whitegrass. “Weis Knob II was opened by Bob Bartin in 1959 and closed, as close as we can determine, around 1965/66,” Williams writes.

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kwillg6

March 20, 2024

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We continue to research the WV lost areas to uncover more accurate information. Weiss Knob II was opened in 1956 by Bob Barton who moved the ski area from what is now CVR Meadows I. He planted pine trees which protect the current Meadows 1 from the wind. Weiss Knob II closed in 1968 from what we can tell. Canaan Valley did not have a ski area until the state opened CVR in 1971. The Governor's Cup Race was then held on the sled run in Blackwater Falls State Park in the interim. We are researching the history of the WV Governor's Cup Race and believe it began in 1962 however anybody who would have been old enough to remember the specifics would be in their 70s or older hence, the problems we're having in nailing down facts.

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