Best Easy Day Hikes Blue Ridge Parkway (Best Easy Day Hikes Series)

✍ Scribed by Randy Johnson

• Publisher: Falcon Guides
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 169
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Best Easy Day Hikes Blue Ridge Parkway offers concise descriptions and detailed maps for thirty-four easy-to-follow trails from the southern end of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina.

Featuring:

• Thirty-minute strolls to full-day adventures
• Hikes for everyone, including families
• Great hikes featuring waterfalls and wildflowers; great hikes for dogs
• Mile-by-mile directions and clear trail maps
• Zero-impact tips

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
How to Use This Guide
Ranking the Hikes
The North-Central Blue Ridge
1 Mountain Farm Trail (Milepost 5.8)
2 Greenstone Self-Guiding Trail (Milepost 8.8)
3 Crabtree Falls (Milepost 27.2)
4 Yankee Horse Overlook Trail (Milepost 34.4)
5 Otter Creek Trail and Otter Lake Loop (Mileposts 60.8–63.6)
6 James River Trail/Trail of Trees (Milepost 63.6)
7 Abbott Lake Trail (Milepost 85.6)
8 Johnson Farm, Harkening Hill, and Elk Run Loop Trails (Milepost 85.9)
The Blue Ridge Plateau
9 Rock Castle Gorge Day Hike (Milepost 165.3)
10 Rocky Knob Day Hike (Milepost 168.0)
11 Mountain Industry Trail at Mabry Mill (Milepost 176.2)
12 Cumberland Knob Trail and High Piney Spur (Mileposts 217.5 and 218.6)
13 Wildcat Rocks and Fodder Stack (Milepost 241.1)
14 Cascades Trail (Milepost 271.9)
15 Tompkins Knob Trail (Milepost 272.5)
The High Country
16 Figure Eight Trail (Milepost 294.0)
17 Bass Lake Loop (Milepost 294.6)
18 Trout Lake Loop and Rich Mountain Carriage Road (Milepost 294.6)
19 Price Lake Trail (Milepost 297.2)
20 Tanawha Trail near Holloway Mountain Road (Milepost 298.6)
21 Tanawha Trail to Rough Ridge (Milepost 302.8)
22 Linn Cove Viaduct (Milepost 304.4)
23 Beacon Heights Trail (Milepost 305.2)
24 Flat Rock Self-Guiding Loop Trail (Milepost 308.3)
25 Duggers Creek Trail, Linville Gorge Trail, and Plunge Basin Overlook Trail (Milepost 316.4)
26 Linville Falls Trail (Milepost 316.4)
27 Balsam Nature Trail (Milepost 355.3)
28 Craggy Pinnacle Trail (Milepost 364.1)
29 Craggy Gardens Trail (Milepost 364.5)
The Southern Appalachians
30 Buck Spring Trail (Mileposts 407.7–411.8)
31 Graveyard Fields Trails and Black Balsam Knob (Mileposts 418.8 and 420.2)
32 Richland Balsam Self-Guiding Trail (Milepost 431.0)
33 Waterrock Knob Trail (Milepost 451.2)
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