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Portions of the Skyline Drive, the famed mountain road through Shenandoah National Park, will be closed at night during hunting season, Park Superintendent Douglas K. Morris announced today:
Morris noted that this is the 25th year that this closure has been undertaken and that it reduces illegal hunting activity within the park, a sanctuary for wildlife, during the commonwealth’s hunting season outside the park.
From Nov. 10 through .Jan. 4, the Skyline Drive between Front Royal (Mile 0 at U.S. Highway 340) and Thornton Gap (Mile 31 at U.S. Highway 211), and between Swift Run Gap (Mile 65 at U.S. Highway 33) and Rockfish Gap (Mile 105 at U.S. Highway 250), will be closed daily between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. The central portion of the drive, between Thornton Gap and Swift Run Gap, will remain open for overnight access to Skyland Resort and Big Meadows Campground until those facilities close on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, respectively. Then, beginning Dec. 1 through Jan. 4, the entire length of the Skyline Drive will be closed daily from 5 p.m. until 8 a.m.
“By closing portions of the Skyline Drive, rangers will be able to concentrate patrols on problem areas and increase contacts along the park boundary,”
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