Category: Virginia

On an overcast day with mist rolling through the woods, we embarked upon a ramble through Shenandoah National Park on Big Flat Mountain Loop.

Bearfence Mountain is a short but challenging rock scramble, with echoes of Piatra Mica in Romania. Hike the Piatra Craiului Mountains without a passport or an airplane or an international layover!

Short, easy, pretty. Have lunch afterward at nearby Rocky Top Overlook in the shade of the big tree.

Extend the popular Doyles River Falls Trail for some uncrowded time in the woods.

We took Helen the ancient Pomeranian and my three similarly-ancient felines to a lovely farmhouse in Stanardsville, VA, near Shenandoah National Park. Elvira promptly claimed