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The Trough is a 6-mile long wooded gorge carved by the South Branch Potomac River (SBPR) and situated in the Allegheny Mountains of Hampshire and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, US. The area was the site of a 1756 skirmish of the French and Indian War , known as the " Battle of the Trough ".
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
Thornton Gap is the site of the mountain crossing of U.S. Highway 211. It is located at the border of Page County and Rappahannock County . At Thornton Gap, there is an entry point for the Skyline Drive , which runs between Front Royal and the northern terminus with the Blue Ridge Parkway at Rockfish Gap .
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.
Waterfall Mountain Cliffs, in the southern extremity of the Fort Valley's Masanutten Mountain ridgeline just south of Scothorn Gap, has been recommended by Virginia Division of Natural Heritage to be designated as a Special Biological Area as it contains significant amounts of semi-primitive acreage.
Virginia Cascades (height 60 feet (18 m)), is a cascade type waterfall on the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park. Virginia Cascades is located just south of the Norris-Canyon road approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Norris Junction. A one-way road provides access to the north side of the cascades.
The Massanutten Trail is a 71-mile (114 km) National Recreation Trail located in George Washington National Forest in Central Virginia. Much of the path is steep and rugged terrain, and presents many mountain vistas. The trail traverses the Massanutten Range around its inner valley. Shenandoah National Park is to the east, and Great North ...
The scenic Skyline Drive, which runs through the Shenandoah National Park north to Front Royal, and south to the Blue Ridge Parkway, which continues on to a point near Cherokee, North Carolina, each generally following the mountain ridgetops; the two highways meet a short distance north of Rockfish Gap (such that the roadway on the bridge over ...