Yankee Horse Overlook Trail
Posted by Chris | Filed under Blue Ridge Parkway
Description:
This is a quintessential Parkway leg-stretcher trail. Great views of Wigwam Falls combine with an interesting exhibit about the logging railroads that carried of the region’s virgin timber.
Total Distance: 0.1-0.2 mile
Location/Directions: Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 34.4
Difficulty:
Easy
Maps:
No Parkway map available; USGS Montebello
Finding the Trailhead:
Start on the right side of the overlook, by the interpretive sign.
The Hike: Blue Ridge Parkway interpretive trails give an amazing sense of how people affected the mountain environment. If you open yourself to the insights, you’ll start noticing the remains of old cabin sites and stone walls where you’d best expect them. This trail will change the way you look at trails wherever you hike in the eastern United States.
This trail explores a section by of railroad reconstructed on the actual grade used by the Irish Creek Railway to transport more than 100 million board feet of lumber. The railway was built in 1919 and 1920 and was 50 miles long.
