Trip Journal: June 12-15, 2022The Blue Ridge Parkway is America's longest linear park travelling 469 miles along the spine of the Blue Ridge Mountains from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. Overlook...
Trip Journal: June 9-11, 2022 The Blue Ridge Parkway is America's longest linear park travelling 469 miles along the spine of the Blue Ridge Mountains from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. Overlook...
Trip Journal: April 27 - May 4, 2022 The Blue Ridge Escarpment is a place of transition where the high mountains of Western North Carolina drop dramatically into the Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia below. Steep elevational drops, high rates of precipitation,...
Trip Journal: April 20-26, 2022The Blue Ridge Escarpment is a place of transition where the high mountains of Western North Carolina drop dramatically into the Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia below. Steep elevational drops, high rates of precipitation, and...
Happy Valentine's Day, folks! When I lived in Upstate South Carolina I drove NC-107 frequently to access the Chattooga River and to get up to the Blue Ridge Escarpment. Silver Run Falls, a small waterfall near Cashiers, North Carolina, was just off the roadside. The...
The virus eventually shut down access to all local parks in Fairfax County. Shenandoah National Park was shuttered tight. Travel was strongly discouraged; campground gates locked. I only had one wildcard in my back pocket: a small Wildlife Management Area in...
Publication: WNC Magazine Issue: July / August 2015, Volume 09, Number 04 Story: VISTAS Photo Essay (p.#36-37) July / August brought me the opportunity to contribute a photograph of the Wilson Creek headwaters flowing underneath of the Tanawha Trail in the Blue...
Thompson Wildlife Management Area is an acreage of property (4,000+) owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries in Fauquier County, Virginia. Located about one hour west of the Northern Virginia suburbs outside...