Front Royal, Virginia Shenanadoah National Park North Fork Resort 10/19 - 10/24/2021 Travel Tour

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Front Royal, VA in the Shenandoah National Park at North Fork Resort -  C2C Resorts
5 nights @$38.00/night.  Located in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

 Our site is along the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, the Civil War Museum, and John Brown's Fort, a key site in an 1859 abolitionist raid on the federal armory. The Federal armories at Harpers Ferry and Springfield Massachusetts, were among the first machine-operated industries in the United States.  Workers in the armories used many labor-saving machines to produce the three major components of the musket: the lock, the stock, and the barrel.  John Brown's raid was to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the

United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia).

The location where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet.

Harpers Ferry is the headquarters of the Appalachian Trail, whose midpoint is nearby.

Peaks of Otter Campground National CG 1 night $10.00.  One of 4 Blue Ridge Parkway campgrounds in Virginia with 132 sites.

Blueridge Parkway - Noted for its scenic beauty Skyline Drive is the longest linear park in the U.S. and runs for 469 miles in Virginia and North Carolina.  

The Parkway links Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park mostly along a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains.

Abbott Lake - a 24-acre serene and pristine lake and park located along the Blue Ridge Parkway as one of the attractions to the Peaks of Otter Park.   It features a one-mile loop trail, fishing, and also a wedding venue.   The only hotel on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia.  

Historic grist mill 

This mill was built about 1910 by Edwin B. Mabry, a jack-of-all-trades who had been a chairmaker, a miner, a coal company blacksmith, and a farmer.  He and his wife, Mintoria Lizzie Mabry, operated the mill until 1936, grinding corn and sawing lumber for their Meadows of  Dan neighbors. In 1945, the National Park Service restored and landscaped the mill - one of the most photographed features on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The Blue Ridge Music Center - a state-of-the-art performing arts facility built to preserve and promote the historic music of Virginia and the Blue Ridge.

We experienced the music of the regions.  Fiddle and banjo traditions of Virginia and North Carolina.  From the old-time string bands, ballad singing, and dancing that define the music of Southwest Virginia, Northwest North Carolina, and Tennessee of blues influences and growth of bluegrass.

Cumberland Knob

is where the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway was started in 1935 as a part of President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps.

Air Bellows Gap in North Carolina elevation is 3729'.  we see a long-range view of an area of mixed agriculture in the regions.  The Christmas tree industry is introduced and ranked second in the nation for Christmas tree sales and produces over 20% of the live Christmas trees grown in the United States.

Mount Mitchell - peak in North Carolina is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains 6,684' surrounded by the Pisgah National Forest.  Determined the height of the range exceeded by several hundred feet that of Mount Washington in New Hampshire.

Stanley W. Abbott, a Cornell-educated landscape architect was the first employee on the scene in 1933.  He was given permission to get to know the region and think about how to build a graceful road through the rugged Blue Ridge Mountains,.