Natural Tunnel State Park features a tunnel naturally formed over millions of years and big enough to house a railroad. Its just a quick, steep hike down to the bottom or you can opt for the ski lift ride. We also enjoyed the olympic-sized pool in the park.
The Virginia Creeper Trail is a popular activity near Mount Rogers. It is a path built along an old, never completed railway that extends from Whitetop Mountain near the border of North Carolina all the way to Abingdon, VA. We rented bikes and took a shuttle from Damascus up to Whitetop to ride the 18 miles back...but thankfully downhill.
Little Stony Falls is a group of waterfalls near Coeburn, VA, just a short drive from Big Stone. You could also hike 16 miles from High Knob past Bark Camp Lake to get a view of these falls. From reading, it seemed like a great path to hike for a day, camp and then finish off the next day. This is one thing I never got around to doing, because of time, but also due to reports of many downed trees left from the winter's snow. The same day that we visited the falls, we had come from Cave Springs Recreational Area (of which I do not have any photos), which along the hike has a cave where the temperature drops 20 degrees. Unfortunately, this hike was also cut short by downed trees.
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