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Near the top of one of the highest mountains in Virginia, Skyland is a part of Shenandoah National Park at one point in time had its own U.S. Post Office, but now it's Skyland, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Located in the northern part of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, it is only 90 miles from Washington, DC, but it is one million miles from stress, tension, and the daily stresses of life. As you travel along the Blue Ridge Parkway through the Shenandoah Valley, can only turn off Skyland found be 41.7 miles.

The outdoor life is what it offers even the greenest tenderfoot urbanized. Horseback riding, hiking trails, from easy to difficult night, Bird watching, waterfall, and looked all part of the attractions. The world famous Luray Caverns in Luray, Virginia is only nine miles, or twenty minutes down the road, being with the operational word from Skyland. Here's an inexperienced Spelunker can hang with the gigantic stalactites hanging from the ceiling and majestic stalagmites Getting up from the floor of the cave marvel.

The Blue Ridge Mountains, which run from Georgia to Pennsylvania, get their name from the blue haze that envelopes if the peaks observed from a distance. It was said that this phenomenon because of the bluish free isoprene gas through the trees occurs. These mountains are literally Covered trees, both deciduous and fir trees. The views are simply breathtaking. Picturesque, Panoramic Blue Ridge Mountain scenery expect around every bend in the road and on every horizon the traveler and the weekend leisure.

One of the trails Skyland is White Oak Canyon. This cut between the mountains has no less than six waterfalls ranging in height from 50 feet to more than 100 meters depth of 1200 feet track. Another way is to place top to bottom. Stony Man Mountain Trail takes hikers to what Stony Man is overlooked. From here the Shenandoah Valley spreads below in all its magnificent splendor. Stony Man Mountain is high only about 4,000 meters, making it the second highest Mountain in the U.S. state of Virginia. Of course, for really avid hikers, the Appalachian Trail passes through this part of Virginia and is easily accessed by Skyland be. No games, no flashing neon lights, no problems, just uninterrupted natural beauty is what Skyland offers the discerning nature lover.

Author is a freelance writer. For more information on skyland trail please visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Skyland-Trail/102070506421.

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August 23rd, 2005 at 7:30 am

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