The Virginia State Parks have a challenge called Trail Quest that rewards you for visiting the 40 parks participating in the program. You simply log your visit at the website and then receive a pin for your 1st, 5th, 10th, 20th, and 40th park. My recent visit to Staunton River earned my 10 visit pin.
After almost 14 years, I finally got the stamps from both ends of the island. Having spent two nights in the Shenandoah National Park, I took a shot that I could get a site on a Sunday night and lucked out. I’d been up there in 2009 but was only able to find accommodations in
Having checked off one of the three modes off getting into False Cape State Park back in September when I did an S24O via bike, it was time to check off mode number two – hiking in. As described in my earlier post, False Cape State Park is bordered on the north by Back Bay
I’m not sure this qualifies as a true S24O as I really didn’t start from home and I’m not entirely sure when it ended. In any case, I had a speaking engagement in Waynesboro, VA (about 3 hours from Virginia Beach) on Friday and I was certainly not going to drive 6 hours for a
It had been several years since I’d taken the A-Liner to the mountains so I was excited to find that sites were readily available in the NPS campgrounds along the Blue Ridge Parkway. With so many campgrounds requiring reservations months in advance, it was nice to be able to hit the road on short notice.