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Skyline Drive. / 38.54833°N 78.46056°W / 38.54833; -78.46056. Skyline Drive is a 105-mile (169 km) National Parkway that runs the entire length of the National Park Service 's Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, generally along the ridge of the mountains. The drive's northern terminus is at an ...
85003172 [1] Added to NRHP. December 13, 1985. Big Meadows is a recreational area of the Shenandoah National Park in Madison County and Page County, in the US state of Virginia. The meadow is located on the Skyline Drive at Milepost 51 and contains the park's Harry F. Byrd Visitor Center, a lodge, camp store, and camping area.
Panorama Resort. Coordinates: 38°39′35.5″N 78°19′16.3″W. Panorama Resort in 1930. Panorama Resort was one of the early resorts that lined what is now Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park (SNP) in the United States, located at Thornton Gap. Like Skyland Resort and Little Switzerland, it was one of many private mountain resorts ...
Brown County State Park encompasses close to 16,000 acres of leafy hills, scenic overlooks, and lush foliage that makes this an especially dazzling spot in the fall. Hiking, fishing, mountain ...
Belle Isle State Park is located in Lancaster County, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River. It sits between Deep Creek and Morattico Creek and is currently under public ownership. The park has an area of 892 acres (3.61 km 2) [1] and has facilities for camping, fishing, boating and picnics. As of 2015, the yearly visitation was 44,502.
Max: 80 feet (24 m) Natural Tunnel State Park is a Virginia state park, centered on the Natural Tunnel, a massive naturally formed cave that is so large it is used as a railroad tunnel. It is located in the Appalachian Mountains near Duffield in Scott County, Virginia . The Natural Tunnel, which is up to 200 feet (61 m) wide and 80 feet (24 m ...
Blue Ridge Parkway. / 36.51861°N 80.93583°W / 36.51861; -80.93583. The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty. The parkway, which is the longest linear park in the U.S., [3] runs for 469 miles (755 km) through 29 counties in Virginia and North Carolina, linking ...
On Friday, April 16, 2016, a 200-acre (81 ha) forest fire was first reported in Shenandoah National Park in the U.S. state of Virginia. [2] The fire originated in the area around Rocky Mount, a mountain in the south district of the park, in a remote region south of Elkton, Virginia. The fire was west of Skyline Drive, the scenic byway that runs ...