The campground is located along Nelson 151, also known as Virginia’s brewery and distillery hub. The northern entrance to Shenandoah National Park with all of its recreational opportunities is less than an hour and a half away. The hiking opportunities are too numerous to list, but this website provides a great overview. Together, this public land stretches along 1.8 million acres of the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and into Kentucky and West Virginia. The nearby George Washington National Forest is a huge swath of land connected to the Jefferson National Forest. Ī few hiking trails located close the Devils Backbone brewery and campground-aside from the well-tread Appalachian Trail-include Humpback Rock, Spy Rock and Crabtree Falls. Located in right at the edge of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in the Blue Ridge Mountains, just five miles from the Appalachian Trail, there’s no shortage of outdoor opportunities just a short drive away from Devils Backbone Brewery. Campers should check in at the brewery building. Check-in time is 3pm and checkout time is 11am. It is bright sometimes, and it is gloomy sometimes, but it is always beautiful if your soul is tuned to the reflections that are given.Quiet time is between 10pm and 9am. If you like the out of doors, you like any kind of weather, because weather is simply the garb that is worn by the out of doors at various times. “It never stopped raining but it didn’t bother us and we had a good time. In an account of the Sub Alpine Club’s hike on Feb. But the cabins afforded refuge where they could enjoy a warm lunch and coffee. Sub Alpine members were hearty souls and not intimidated by lousy weather. It seems that, on cold rainy days, club members opted for this hike - perhaps because there were cabins available on the Chase property and adjoining properties.
Sometimes more.Ī book, “The Journal of the Sub Alpine Club of America,” documents the club’s hikes between 19. These days, there are just as many women on the hikes as men.
The loosely disorganized organization (my description) has evolved to include a wide cross-section of kindred spirits. They were driven by a love for the outdoors and a dedication to hiking in the colder months of the year. The Sub Alpine Club was started in 1930 by some of Mount Vernon’s shakers and movers - all men. In the past 90 years, club members have hiked the property dozens of times.\ McClurg/Devil’s Backbone hike was popular with the Mount Vernon-based Sub Alpine Hiking Club of America Greer also told us that the McClurg/Devil’s Backbone hike was popular with the Mount Vernon-based Sub Alpine Hiking Club of America. Rebuilding it ended up costing more than if they had built a few bridges in the first place. Landslides frequently washed out the railroad bed. Greer pointed out that the railroad tried to avoid the expense of building bridges back and forth across the river by running the tracks along the base of the Devil’s Backbone. The elements and floods had consumed or washed away most of the ties but a few remained pretty much where they had been when the railroad was abandoned 80 years ago. Over the years, I’ve walked many miles of the raised railroad bed and occasionally camped on it, but this was the first time I’ve seen so many railroad ties in one place. Both parallel the Mohican River south of Greer. Which is more commonly known as “The Wally.” The old railroad bed lies between the river and the Devil’s Backbone. Ohio & Walhonding Valley Railroad history lessonĪmong the latter were those who rode or worked on the Ohio & Walhonding Valley Railroad. Greer gave a running - or walking - commentary on the lay of the land, its history, the people who lived there, and those who were just passing through.
Radar kept us in line - not by nipping at our ankles but by charming the socks off of us. Turns out that Radar is more a blue healer. Greer, a retired science teacher and a neighbor of the Chases, explained that, when he got Radar as a pup, he wanted a smaller dog and thought Radar might be a corgi.
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