Near the end of Virginia the trail goes through Shenandoah National Park. Its a nice park don't get me wrong but I wanted to get out of it as fast as possible. The trail pretty much parallels the Sky Line Drive the entire 70 miles. So I had the lovely sound of cars driving by my entire day and I could usually hear a car or two from the shelters at night.
The park didn't offer many good views from the trail either. To see any views you would need to walk off the trail and go to a view point on Sky Line Drive. Sometime the walk wasn't that bad, other times it was too far to bother.
But the park did offer a lot of good wild life. I saw countless deer and a few fawns as well. Also I saw a bear pretty much every single day which was way cool. After the park my bear totally is probably around 8 or 9. But the bears or more scared of me then I'm scared of them so all I had to do was bang my hiking sticks together and the bear would go running. I also saw 2 rattle snakes while going through the park as well.
Another cool feature about the park are the Waysides. The Waysides are little pull offs for cars so people can grab a bite to eat. Most are pretty close to the trail so hikers can take advantage of them as well. Only problem is you end up playing $10 for an ok burger. But the famous Shenandoah National Park Blackberry Milkshake was very good....not worth the $4 I payed for it though.
All in all the park wasn't really the great. Shenandoah is defiantly meant to be driven through.
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