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By Maureen Harris
Special to the Rappahannock Nev\
This interesting walk leads through a forest of mountain laurel, past 80-year old American chestnut stumps that still have sprouting saplings, and moves gradually uphill to a stunning viewpoint high above Skyline Drive.
To begin the walk, enter Skyline Drive at the Front Royal entrance station and drive south. You will pass the Dickey Ridge Visitor Center after about 4.5 miles. This facility is well worth a visit, as it has interesting displays and friendly, helpful National Park Service rangers and volunteers.
Continue on Skyline Drive for an additional 7.9 miles (total of 12.4 miles from the Front Royal entrance station). On the right will be the Jenkins Gap parking lot, a paved lot for about 14 vehicles. Park here.
If you access Skyline Drive at the Thornton Gap entrance station on Route 211, bear right (north) onto Skyline Drive and drive 19 miles to the Jenkins Gap parking lot on your left.
You will see a 4 ft. concrete post in the south comer of the parking lot.
Proceed to this and walk along the trail from the post, slightly downhill, for about 150 feet to a second concrete post marking the intersection with the Appalachian Trail.
Turn right onto the Appalachian Trail. You may see 4” x 6” white paint blazes intermittently on trees along the trail. These occur throughout the whole 2000 mile length of the Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine.
The walk here is flat and the trail passes for about 2/10th mile through a stunning “forest” of mountain laurel, much of it over 10 feet high. The laurel in Shenandoah generally blooms at about the end of May, a week
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