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Lake Wilderness is a census-designated place in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The population at the 2010 Census , was 2,669. [ 1 ] It is flanked on three sides by the Wilderness Battlefield section of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park .
The Wilderness is located south of the Rapidan River and along the Rappahannock River for 14 miles, and then about 8 or 10 miles to the south. [1] Its southern border is Spotsylvania Court House, and the western border is usually considered the Rapidan River tributary Mine Run.
The community is centered at the intersection of Virginia primary 20 and Virginia primary 3. [1] The name likely comes from the nearby thick forest known as The Wilderness Forest, where a Civil War battle nearby known as the Battle of the Wilderness occurred. Locust Grove is the official mailing address for Wilderness.
Mountain Lake Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located next to privately owned Mountain Lake , [ 3 ] and consists of 8,314 acres (3,365 ha) in Virginia and 2,721 acres (1,101 ha) in West Virginia .
There are 139,461 acres (564 km 2) [2] of federally designated wilderness areas in the two forests under the United States National Wilderness Preservation System. All are in the state of Virginia, except as indicated. The largest of these is the Mountain Lake Wilderness, at 16,511 acres (67 km 2).
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Flat Run: Lies between the Wilderness and Germanna areas along the Route 3 corridor. The Flat Run area consists of the Lake of the Woods, a housing tract surrounding a man-made body of water supplied by the Flat Run, and Meadows Farms Golf Course, home of the longest golf hole in the U.S (Par 6, 841 yds.).