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Shenandoah National Park / ˈ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˌ d oʊ ə / (often / ˈ ʃ æ n ə n ˌ d oʊ ə /) is a national park of the United States that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont to the east.
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Hogback Mountain is the highest peak in the northern portion of Shenandoah National Park as well as the highest point in Warren County in northern Virginia, United States. A part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it is located along the border of Warren and Rappahannock counties. It is easily accessible via Skyline Drive and the Appalachian Trail. [2]
Marking the border between Madison County and Page County in Virginia, the summit of Hawksbill Mountain is the highest point in Shenandoah National Park, as well as the highest point in both Madison and Page counties. The north face of Hawksbill Peak is a 2,500-foot (760 m) drop into Timber Hollow, which is the largest elevation change in the park.
The upper Old Rag parking area was closed to public vehicles in 2010. Parking was limited to the lower field parking area, adding a 0.9-mile (1.4 km) walk on asphalt. In 2019, the National Park Service announced the construction two new parking lots, forming a new trailhead. With this addition, the previous primary field lot is only used for ...
The tunnel was justified as a money-saving measure but was also suggested to challenge Bureau of Public Roads and National Park Service landscape architects. [13] With the official establishment of Shenandoah National Park in 1935, the CCC hired 300 men, most of whom were not local to the area, to continue to build Skyline Drive. [17]
Mary's Rock, also known as Marys Rock, is a 3,514-foot (1,071 m) tall mountain in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, United States. The peak is just south of the Thornton Gap Entrance of the park, and north of the taller Pinnacle. Mary's Rock is the eighth highest peak in Shenandoah National Park.
April 28, 1997 (Shenandoah National Park, from the N entrance station at Front Royal to the S entrance station at Rockfish Gap: Luray: Boundary increase (listed September 19, 1997): Within Shenandoah National Park, areas known as Headquarters, Big Meadows, Dickey Ridge, Simmons Gap, and Piney R; Boundary increase (listed December 5, 2003): Shenandoah National Park, Skyland, Lewis Mountain and ...