Devil's Den-Ewing Mountain is a wildland in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of western Virginia that has been recognized by the Wilderness Society as a special place worthy of protection from logging and road construction.
[1] Ewing Mountain, a range extending across the area, includes Devil's Den on the west and Chestnut Knob on the east.
The Appalachian Mountains were extensively timbered in the early twentieth century leaving logging roads that are becoming overgrown but still passable.,[5] Old logging roads and railroad grades can be located by consulting the historical topographic maps available from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The Devils's Den-Ewing Mountain wild area is covered by USGS topographic maps Cripple Creek and Austinsville.
The Devil's Den-Ewing Mountain wild area surrounds 400-acre Collins Cove, a private land holding in a pastoral valley with a few buildings.
Later the Forest Service raised concerns that the area no longer had a semi-primitive core because of development in the inholding at Collins Cove.