Standing water in a high elevation (3900'+) bog on the north end of Red Creek Plains. The bog drains to Red Creek. Bogs like this one are caused by a low dip rock strata in the underlying geology - a natural bowl shape in the land. Bogs in the far north are caused by glacially disrupted drainage which is significant difference. How many mountaintop wetlands do you know of? There are seven known bogs on the Plains, not including Dolly Sods or Canaan Valley. This is perhaps the largest and wettest one, roughly eight tenths of a mile long and 1/3rd of a mile wide. Beaver activity and a waterlogged sphagnum moss ground that inhibits tree growth maintains the open area.