Overview
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (NHP) is located where Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet. Its Visitor Center is at 171 Shoreline Drive, Harpers Ferry, WV, 25425.
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Harpers Ferry NHP, famed for its history, encompasses not just the historic town of Harpers Ferry, but also acres of wooded slopes, rocky cliffs, fields, and floodplains along the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers. The wide range of settings provides homes for widely varying natural communities, which are predictable combinations of plants and animals that occur in different places on the landscape. The plants in the park’s Rich Floodplain Forest depend upon regular flooding, while those in its Chestnut Oak Forest thrive in a high-and-dry environment.
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