Skyline Drive, From Front Royal, Virginia to Rockfish Gap, Virginia , Luray, Page County, Virginia
Summary
Significance: Over seventy miles long and varying in width from less than one mile to just over 13 miles, Shenandoah National Park straddles the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Here the ancient and narrow front range of the Appalachian Mountain, shrouded in a perpetual blue haze of humidity, rises abruptly from the eastern Piedmont plateau before descending sharply into the Shenandoah Valley on the west. Winding along the ridge crest, Skyline Drive provides physical and scenic access along the park's entire length, offering views over the western valley and eastern plateau some 2,500 to 3,500 feet below.
Survey number: HAER VA-119
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Quin, Richard, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Harvey, Robert R, delineator
Groe, harlan d, delineator
Lanning, Michael P, delineator
Seeger, Christopher J, delineator
Wirth, Shane P, delineator
Faust, William A, photographer
Schmell, Brant, delineator
Stokes, Dave, delineator
Lundquist, Ryan, delineator
Location
Front Royal (Va.), 38.66540, -78.45945
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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