We did this continously up until the his sixteenth year, when the scheduling for it couldn't be managed around summer school, and scout activities. Hopefully, we'll keep this up in the future, however. It's beautiful, peaceful and fairly unpopulated there. The trail runs along the Cranberry river in south east West Virginia, through maple and Sycamore forests. The river is shallow enough that it can be waded fairly easily, and the camping on the side of the river opposite the trail is pretty much completely private.
Wild life is plentiful and easily observable.
During the 1997 trip. at least once each day our camp was visited by small groups of deer. They were sufficiently tame that Brandon was able to stalk up within about 3 meters from one of them, once. We didn't see any bears, but there were plenty of signs of their presence. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures from either of these trips. Something has happened to the film both times we went there.