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Want to go into Virginia Mountains before all the tourists trash them.

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shortylickens

shortylickens

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I live in Manassas and go to college locally.
I have thurs, friday off and want to take a little day trip up into the closest possible mountain I can find. Only want to spend one day and drive back in the evening. I will take an emergency tent and sleeping bag but I dont intend to use them.
Would like to avoid weekends because thats when most people are able to make it up and leave their litter collections behind.

Wanted to do it this past thursday when there would have been some mud, but I had too much stuff going on to be gone all day.

Where is the closest place in Northern Virginia I can run my truck around?
 
Got to be some interesting country down Prince William Forest Park way?

Or just head up into Shenandoah NP?
 
Originally posted by: dug777
Got to be some interesting country down Prince William Forest Park way?
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Nothing in the way of mountains. PW County is pretty flat. He'll have to head to the Shenandoah for that.

Or just head up into Shenandoah NP?
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Of course, OP talked about taking his truck out, suggesting he wants to go off-roading. That's a no-no in most national parks, or at least the ones out east. Most don't even allow mountain biking, let alone 4x4 trucks. Don't know where he'd have to go for that. Maybe a local club (search the 'net) would know?
 
Sorry, guess I should have been clear.
I intend to off road in my crummy little S-10. Thats why I am avoiding flat national parks.
I was able to enjoy many fine ranges in Oregon, east of Eugene. Havent had that for a year or more. Feel the overwhelming urge to paste my truck with mud.
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Sorry, guess I should have been clear.
I intend to off road in my crummy little S-10. Thats why I am avoiding flat national parks.
I was able to enjoy many fine ranges in Oregon, east of Eugene. Havent had that for a year or more. Feel the overwhelming urge to paste my truck with mud.
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Good luck with that. You are far removed from the wide-open spaces of West. Almost all the land around you is going to be privately owned, and if it's public, it's probably not going to be 4x4-friendly. Your best bet is probably hooking up with a local club or something that has thier own plot somewhere. I'd be interested to hear what you find.
 
I live right in the Shenandoah valley and there's tons of places to go to enjoy the mountains, but I'm not sure where to tell you to go if you want to go off-roading. That's all usually done on private property.
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Sorry, guess I should have been clear.
I intend to off road in my crummy little S-10. Thats why I am avoiding flat national parks.
I was able to enjoy many fine ranges in Oregon, east of Eugene. Havent had that for a year or more. Feel the overwhelming urge to paste my truck with mud.
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George Washington forest is all that I know of for public wheeling. You need to head west of 81 to get to them, probably a 2 hour drive.
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Sorry, guess I should have been clear.
I intend to off road in my crummy little S-10. Thats why I am avoiding flat national parks.
I was able to enjoy many fine ranges in Oregon, east of Eugene. Havent had that for a year or more. Feel the overwhelming urge to paste my truck with mud.
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I see.

That's a bit more difficult. Other than google-mapping for Fire Roads, I'm out of ideas.
 
Head out to the Reddish Knob area west of Harrisonburg. Plenty of fire roads running all around the mountains out that way. Also you can go out past Front Royal and head into Fort Valley at the northern end of Massanutten Mountain, there is a network of fire roads going up in there too and one leads up to the Woodstock fire tower which has a gorgeous view of the North and South Forks of the Shenandoah River.
 
PERFECT!
All I have to do is take 66 west to 81, then 81 south to Harrisonburg.

According to the pics on Google Maps that is EXACTLY what I am looking for.

Sweet.
Linflas, dont be suprised if you find a hooker in your mail next week. 😉
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
PERFECT!
All I have to do is take 66 west to 81, then 81 south to Harrisonburg.

According to the pics on Google Maps that is EXACTLY what I am looking for.

Sweet.
Linflas, dont be suprised if you find a hooker in your mail next week. 😉
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Yeah, Reddish Knob isn't too hard to get to once you're in Hburg. You get off 81 at 247, take 33 to 42, then go south a couple miles. You'll take a right (can't remember the exact road name), then you'll start seeing signs for the national forest. Probably take you 2.5 hours from Manassas. If you drive all the way up Reddish Knob, there's a nice 360 view.
 
Originally posted by: joshsquall
Originally posted by: shortylickens
PERFECT!
All I have to do is take 66 west to 81, then 81 south to Harrisonburg.

According to the pics on Google Maps that is EXACTLY what I am looking for.

Sweet.
Linflas, dont be suprised if you find a hooker in your mail next week. 😉
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Yeah, Reddish Knob isn't too hard to get to once you're in Hburg. You get off 81 at 247, take 33 to 42, then go south a couple miles. You'll take a right (can't remember the exact road name), then you'll start seeing signs for the national forest. Probably take you 2.5 hours from Manassas. If you drive all the way up Reddish Knob, there's a nice 360 view.
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Keep an eye out and you can get glimpses of a huge dish antenna the Navy/NSA has in a valley on the West Virginia side. They have a communications station up there in Sugar Grove and if the town hasn't changed since I went to JMU there is a combination general store/gas station/post office there right out of the 1930's.
 
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