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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.
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]
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. Several hiking trails can be accessed from Big Meadows, including the Mill Prong Trail which leads to Rapidan Camp on the Rapidan River , the fishing retreat of President Herbert Hoover from 1929 ...
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.
Stony Man Mountain, also known as Stony Man, is a mountain in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia and is the most northerly 4,000 foot peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains. [1] Its maximum elevation is 4,011 feet or 1,223 meters above sea level with a clean prominence of 651 feet. [ 2 ]
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 ...
The Blackrock Springs Site is an archaeological site in Shenandoah National Park, in Augusta County, Virginia, United States.. The site was discovered during the early 1970s as part of a comprehensive survey of the national park.
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] On October 1, 1936, the drive was completed between Front Royal and Thornton Gap at a cost of $1,235,177 (equivalent to $21.3 million in 2023, [ 16 ] ).