Photo: goshenandoah 100-Mile Skyline Drive in Virginia Traverses Blue Ridge Mountains I immediately walked quickly to the car, shifting into gear and leaving far behind whatever had made the sound. A loud rustling, from where I couldn’t tell, sent a jolt of fear through me–I may now be a city girl but I knew there were bears in these hills. Finally able to nestle my car along the road, I jumped out, slammed the door, and back-tracked at a trot then happily began shooting. Eager to photograph the blooms, I felt a spurt of impatience that there wasn’t shoulder space along the road for me to pull over for several hundred yards. I felt a tinge of uneasiness and then caught sight of a tree laden with unusual, heavy purple flowers. While just miles from a major interstate highway I was nonetheless truly in the wilderness. It occurred to me that in my day-to-day life I would likely have been oblivious to his existence.Īs I drove on, it struck me that I hadn’t yet seen another soul. I happen to look down and noticed a thick fat caterpillar lolling on a stick, master of his domain. Tall grasses merged into brambles and bushes that folded into leafy trees that became an endless cushion of canopy. I pulled into the first of these, McCormick Gap Overlook and got out of the car to stretch my legs and absorb the rich hues of a sea of undulating green waves reaching to the horizon. ![]() She handed me a map and told me that there were 75 scenic overlooks along the drive. At the entrance to Skyline Drive, I paid the ranger the $30 fee for access to the 105-mile ribbon of road that traverses the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains. ![]() Skyline Drive is so-named because it crosses the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are part of the larger Appalachian range, affording breathtaking views of an ever-changing horizon.Įast of Waynesboro, I reached Rockfish Gap and Shenandoah National Park. The two-lane road traverses 105 miles of pristine wilderness in Shenandoah National Park, which is about 75 miles south of Washington, D.C. The Skyline Drive in Virginia was something I had never tried, despite having gone to high school just an hour away.
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