VIRGINIA - SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK - Sendero circular a Marys Rock, desde el Meadow Spring Parking Area, y regreso
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 2.82 mi
- Elevation gain
- 794 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 794 ft
- Max elevation
- 3,396 ft
- TrailRank
- 61
- Min elevation
- 2,717 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- one hour 49 minutes
- Coordinates
- 418
- Uploaded
- November 26, 2016
- Recorded
- November 2016
near Morning Star, Virginia (United States)
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Short tour in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia (United States), one of the great American parks, whose establishment was approved in 1926, and became fully operational in 1935.
The park occupies a narrow and elongated surface, in the Blue Mountain, and much of its infrastructure is due to the work done by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created in the 1930s by President Frankin Roosevelt, to deal with the economic effects of the Great Depression.
Thousands of young people worked during those years in carpentry, gardening and masonry, opening roads and raising retaining walls carved in stone, building the path through which today the Appalachian Trail, and many other small trails in the interior of the park. .
In this small route, we start from Skyline Drive, a beautiful mountain road that constitutes a kind of backbone of the park, from the point known as Meadow Spring Parking Area, and following an approach trail known as Meadow Spring Trail, we ascend uphill until its intersection with the Appalachian Trail.
Once on the crest of the mountain, we followed the Appalachian Trail to the north, and quickly spotted the rocky watchtower of Marys Rock, which is accessed by a short lateral detour of the AT. This rocky group is formed by granodiorite, plutonic igneous rock similar to granite, with an approximate age of 1,000 million years.
From the top of this privileged viewpoint, you can enjoy a magnificent panoramic view of Thorton Gap and the surrounding valleys, east and west.
The return to the starting point we do following the same route.
The park occupies a narrow and elongated surface, in the Blue Mountain, and much of its infrastructure is due to the work done by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created in the 1930s by President Frankin Roosevelt, to deal with the economic effects of the Great Depression.
Thousands of young people worked during those years in carpentry, gardening and masonry, opening roads and raising retaining walls carved in stone, building the path through which today the Appalachian Trail, and many other small trails in the interior of the park. .
In this small route, we start from Skyline Drive, a beautiful mountain road that constitutes a kind of backbone of the park, from the point known as Meadow Spring Parking Area, and following an approach trail known as Meadow Spring Trail, we ascend uphill until its intersection with the Appalachian Trail.
Once on the crest of the mountain, we followed the Appalachian Trail to the north, and quickly spotted the rocky watchtower of Marys Rock, which is accessed by a short lateral detour of the AT. This rocky group is formed by granodiorite, plutonic igneous rock similar to granite, with an approximate age of 1,000 million years.
From the top of this privileged viewpoint, you can enjoy a magnificent panoramic view of Thorton Gap and the surrounding valleys, east and west.
The return to the starting point we do following the same route.
Waypoints
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2,753 ft
Inicio del recorrido, en el Skyline Drive. Meadow Spring Parking Area
Inicio del recorrido, en el Skyline Drive. Meadow Spring Parking Area
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3,376 ft
Por la cresta de la montaña, siguiendo el Appalachian Trail
Por la cresta de la montaña, siguiendo el Appalachian Trail
Panorama
Intersection
3,307 ft
Intersección con el desvío a Marys Rock
Intersección con el desvío a Marys Rock
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