Take a guided tour along the iconic Skyline Drive, highlighting its construction, stunning overlooks, and notable stopping points.
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One Road Through the Blue Ridge
This series, Skyline Wonders: A Drive Through Time and Beauty, explores the history, ecology, and hidden stories of Shenandoah National Park across seven episodes.
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Depression-Era Workers Built This Road
During the Great Depression, young men from the Civilian Conservation Corps carved a road along the spine of the Blue Ridge Mountains using little more than hand tools,…
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Ancient Lava Flows at Compton Peak
Compton Peak holds a geological secret that predates the Appalachian Mountains themselves.
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Big Meadows Defies the Forest Around It
Big Meadows has been an open grassland for roughly five thousand years, maintained first by grazing elk and bison, then by periodic burning from Native Americans who…
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Where Skyline Drive Meets Its End
At Rockfish Gap, Skyline Drive hands off to the Blue Ridge Parkway, creating a continuous scenic corridor stretching 574 miles from here to the Great Smoky Mountains in…
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Carved Through Stone at Marys Rock
Marys Rock Tunnel is the only tunnel along the entire length of Skyline Drive — a 670-foot passage blasted straight through a granite promontory because engineers…
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Seventy-Five Windows Into the Blue Ridge
Shenandoah's seventy-five overlooks aren't random pullouts — they were deliberately placed by landscape architects who studied sightlines the way a painter studies…
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