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HIKING POSSIBILITIES

Floyd County Area Hiking 
The best way to locate one of these trails is by milepost number
The map highlights general vicinity of mileposts 169 & 176

Black Ridge Trail
Black Ridge Trail Length: 3.1 miles Rating: Moderate - Directions: Blue Ridge Parkway mile post 169.0. 

Hardwood Cove Self-Guiding Nature Trail
Hardwood Cove Self-Guiding Nature Trail Length: 0.8 miles Rating: Moderate - Directions: Blue Ridge Parkway mile post 167.1.
This trail is part of the Rock Castle Gorge Trail. 

Mabry Mill Trail
Mabry Mill Trail Length: 0.5 miles Rating: Easy - Directions: Blue Ridge Parkway mile post 176.2. 

Rock Castle Gorge Trail
Rock Castle Gorge Trail Length: 10.8 miles Rating: Strenuous - Directions: Blue Ridge Parkway mile post 167.1. 

Rocky Knob Picnic Loop Trail
Rocky Knob Picnic Loop Trail Length: 1.0 miles Rating: Easy - Directions: Blue Ridge Parkway mile post 169.0. 

Round Meadow Creek Loop Trail
Round Meadow Creek Loop Trail Length: 0.5 miles Rating: Moderate - Directions: Blue Ridge Parkway mile post 179.2. 

Smart View Loop Trail Smart View Loop Trail Length: 2.6 miles Rating: Moderate - Directions: Blue Ridge Parkway mile post 154.5. 

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Appalachian Trail- Inset: Roanoke Valley-New River Valley - Southern Shenandoah Valley areas highlighted

Map of the Appalachian Trail



 

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Other locations in our area well worth a day hike:



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MOUNT ROGERS

Mt. Rogers, Virginia

Mt. Rogers, Virginia's highest point, elevation 1746 m (5728 ft) in the southwestern Virginia Blue Ridge. Note summit covered in high altitude spruce-fir forest. Mount Rogers is underlain by purple-gray rhyolite that was erupted from volcanoes approximately 750 Ma. Direction of view is to the northeast. The mountain was named for William Barton Rogers, educated at William and Mary and professor of natural philosophy and chemistry from 1828-1835. He later became Virginia's first State Geologist and founded M.I.T
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