Amazing! I Was Considering Heading Up There Soon

[Razors Edge ★]

...for a ride, but had no idea it had been all sorts of messed up this winter! Luckily, I use the north entrance and sometimes the middle entrances, but rarely the south one.

Crews are finally digging out a 40-mile stretch of Virginia’s scenic Skyline Drive after a series of winter storms closed it for more than four months.

Shenandoah National Park spokeswoman Sally Hurlbert said Wednesday that the southern portion of the road should be open by early April.

The closure was one of the longest in decades after ice storms pounded the Blue Ridge Mountains. The five-week partial government shutdown only delayed the cleanup.

Skyline Drive is the park’s only public road. It winds through the Appalachian Mountains in western Virginia for 105 miles.

The road is closed from about where it crosses Route 33 near Elkton to where it ends in the south near Waynesboro.

People can still access to the park’s southern portion through entranceways on the park’s boundaries.

[dinneR ★]

And here things are getting ready for riding season. 

 

[donkpow]

I've seen a lot of trees down this year. The system clears them from the paved trails, pronto.