Guides and Trips
Trips
Mileage for this hike is a bit untrustworthy because the canyon walls can really mess with your GPS (note the stats for my trip - 130mph is a wee bit fast for me). The hike from the parking lot to the end of the maintained trail is somewhere in the 6.6 (what the signs at the trailhead say) to 9.1 mile (what my GPS measured) range. Searching everytrail for other versions of...
Walking from Skyland, across the Skyline Drive to the Whiteoak Canyon Trailhead, to the Limberlost Loop.
Shenandoah NP - Dark Hollow Rose River Loop
Shenandoah NP, Virginia, United States
Photography | 6.5 miles
Photography | 6.5 miles
Park at Big Meadows Visitor Center. Hike the nature trail to the Dark Hollow Trail. At the bottom of Dark Hollow (at the fire road), turn right, cross the bridge, and immediately turn left onto the Rose River Loop trail. When you get to the Skyline Drive, look for the horse trail, just north of the pullout, on the west side of the road. Take the horse trail back to the Big...
A relatively easy walk over old lava flows, and through several kipuka. We stopped and turned around at 1.4 miles, but the trail continues at least another 2.3 miles (one way) where it intersects the Powerline Road.
Hike down a short, a (maybe) steep trail to a remote black sand and cobble beach. Great views.