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New item on the Outback menu? Don’t think so...first bite would be, how you say, a jawbreaker! No, this offering from otur historical cuisine deals instead with a road and a family of notable sculptors who helped to shape (if you’ll pardon the expression) some important reminders of our past.
Tbday we call it Route 211. The road twists and twines up the mountain from Sperryville to Thornton’s Gap and then repeats the pattern on the western side as the switchbacks carry the tr^ .eler on down to (Hooray for) Luray. The entire crossing through Shenandoah National Park might take 15 minutes (though it often seems some city folks would like to make it in 5; a few bikers in even less; can you spell tailgate?). But there was a time when this little jaunt represented a major excursion, typically requiring an overnight stay ‘at the top’.
A road has crossed the Blue Ridge at Thornton Gap since before the American Revolution. In the beginning, it was not pretty, a rocky and potentially muddy quagmire under the wrong weather conditions. But it was and is an important passage between the Piedmont and the Shenandoah Valley; ever contemplated making the trip on foot?
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