 The mountain is named in honor of an early pioneer in Allegany County, Maryland, and Bedford County, Pennsylvania, thought by some to have gone by the last name of "Evart" (Evett, Evert, and Evit have also been proposed).In the 1780s, Mr. Evart decided to contemplate his bachelorhood from the isolated mountain top of what is today Evitts Mountain, at , now in Rocky Gap State Park, far from the comforts of society.At the top of the mountain lies what its allegedly Mr. Evart's old homestead, from which he would return by the same route every day hiking a steep trail, now called Evitts Trail.