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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.
The Doyles River is a 10.1-mile-long (16.3 km) [1] tributary of the Moormans River in central Virginia in the United States. Via the Moormans, Rivanna and James rivers, it is part of the watershed of Chesapeake Bay. According to the Geographic Names Information System, the river has also been known as the Doyle River.
Overall river safety and lack of rain caused things to look better than they were; not aggressive fencing by farmers. One bad reading triggers the unsafe list for swimming in Shenandoah waters ...
Seven Bends State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Virginia, located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town of Woodstock, near the historic "Seven Bends" region of the North Fork Shenandoah River. The park, Virginia's 41st, provides recreational and land-based outdoor recreational and educational opportunities for visitors while ...
Fast, cold currents draw summer visitors to this swimming hole on the Eleven Point River in the Mark Twain National Forest area. The river has been called the most pristine in the Ozarks area, and ...
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The Shenandoah River was contaminated with mercury which was released by a DuPont rayon manufacturing facility located in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1929 to 1950. [6] This mercury is still present in the fish population of the river today; data collected over the last several decades shows that mercury levels remain stable. [ 7 ]
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]).