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A walk through
history
The walk begins with a short incline and then a short decline (total of about l/10th mile). When the trail flattens out, on your right will be the small concrete foundation of an abandoned building. This was originally a Skyline Park wayside and rest station, built during the 1950’s when many waysides were built along the drive for tourists. Later, the philosophy of the park changed to make Shenandoah more “natural,” and most of these waysides were removed.
As you walk on, you will enter a 100-year-old apple orchard. The apple trees are still there and they still blossom in the spring and bear fruit in the fall. If you plan your walk during apple blossom time (which, because of the higher elevation and colder temperatures, is about 2 to 3 weeks later than in our apple orchards here in the lower county), you will be treated to a wonderfiil display of apple blossoms and apple blossom fragrance, with many very busy bees collecting nectar (they are so intent on their nectar-collecting duties that they will pay absolutely no attention to you at all).
The apple species does not seem to be that of our modem apples. The fruit is small, and it is difficult in autumn to find one that does not have many imperfections.
The land was apparently cleared to create this orchard. Now, however, the apple trees are overshadowed by a “secondgrowth” forest of locusts, paks, hickory, black cherry, and other trees.
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