Shenandoah National Park

With over 500 miles of scenic trails, the Shenandoah National Park takes you through cascading waterfalls, spectacular vistas, and quiet wooded hollows. This hiker’s paradise allows guests to explore and picnic throughout 200,000 acres of protected lands, filled with deer, songbirds, and a beautiful dark night sky. This weekend getaway has some in-park hotels, including, Skyland Lodge, Meadows Lodge, and Lewis Mountain Cabins, allowing you to get away from the hustle and bustle of Washington D.C. and surrounding areas and into the calm outdoors of nature.

Shenandoah National Park preserves and protects nationally significant natural and cultural resources, scenic beauty, and congressionally designated wilderness within Virginia’s northern Blue Ridge Mountains, and provides a broad range of opportunities for public enjoyment, recreation, inspiration, and stewardship. This place lies along the Blue Ridge Mountains in north-central Virginia. These mountains form a distinct highland rising to elevations above 4,000 feet. Local topographic relief between the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley exceeds 3,000 feet at some locations. The crest of the range divides the Shenandoah River drainage basin, part of the Potomac River drainage, on the west side, from the James and Rappahannock River drainage basins on the east side.

Location: Virginia, United States

Website: https://www.nps.gov/shen/index.htm

Distance from Delaware: 167.1 miles

Travel time: 2 hours 50 minutes

Tel: 1 540-999-3500

Fee: $75 to $200 per person

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