Shenandoah Bushwack on the Abandoned Big Bend Fire Road
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.33 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,086 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 1,086 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,386 ft
- TrailRank
- 26
- Min elevation
- 1,972 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 5 hours 18 minutes
- Coordinates
- 6379
- Uploaded
- April 11, 2016
- Recorded
- February 2016
near Sandy Bottom, Virginia (United States)
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Itinerary description
A hike best done in the winter along old roads just off of U.S. 33 in Shenandoah National Park. The Big Bend Fire Road was abandoned in the 1980's, while the other road, paralleling today's U.S. 33 is the original Spottswood Trail, built in the mid 1800's and abandoned by the mid-1930's. These roads are in amazingly good shape and make great trails! Because they are not on maps, I am ranking this as a difficult hike because it is off of current trails, but it is not one that will get you breathing heavily.
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