Community Trips
My daughter and I met on a Friday night at the James River crossing of the Appalachian trail (N37 35 48.9 W079 23 28.7). We parked north of the bridge in John's Hollow (N37 36 19.6 W079 23 13.0) and walked in about .5 mile to set up camp for the night just after crossing the first creek. It was late so we decided to leave all of the food in the cars...
MArble Springs - Appalachain Trail - Balcony Falls Trl
Big Island, Virginia, United States
7.9 miles
7.9 miles
Eight mile walk on a foggy Virginia day. This is an "out and back" walk that does has somewhat of a loop to it . . .
8.6 miles . . .
I'd intended to do this as a loop with the Gunter Ridge trail but ran out of time. So this is a bit further than the Balcony Falls trail is officially. I did not come across any views into the gorge over looking Balcony Falls but there were some nice views of the James and Glasgow. There are a number of intersecting trails and the AT to provide innumerable shuttles and at...
