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Rappahannock Newt Special Writer
With the season for gluttony getting under way with the traditional carving of the turkey next week, we surveyed area park authorities and parks and recreation departments looking for family-oriented runs, hikes, walks, touch football games or anything that might help our readers either sharpen appetites on Thanksgiving morning or work off the calories in the days immediately following the feast.
The pickings were less than slim.
In fact, we could find nothing planned by either the Fauquier or Loudoun county parks and recreation departments for Thanksgiving Qay. Even worse, we found Fauquier County’s Crockett Park closed next Thursday and Friday. ■ Sky Meadows State Park, near Paris, is open and offers about six miles of rather well-marked scenic tfails overlooking the Piedmont Valley. But Sky Meadows’ organized interpretive programs ended in October. • Shenandoah National Park as well as Harpers Ferry and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal national historical parks are open but are not qpite as handy to most of the region’s population as are regional, county and municipal parks.
Segments of the Appalachian Trail pass through the Matthews Arm, Skyland and Big Meadows areas of Shenandoah National Park and are accessible from Skyline Drive. There is also a short tangent trail to Jeremys Run at Matthews Arm, which is about midway between the Front Royal and Route 211 entrances to the park^
More extensive networks of interconnecting trails may be found at Skyland, 10 miles south of the Route
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