General Discussion / Re: Picking up the Trans America from DC
« on: June 09, 2023, 04:50:03 pm »I would suggest taking the W&OD rail trail to Purcellville, Virginia. From Purcellville it is about a thirty-five mile distance to Front Royal, VA, the northern end of the Skyline Drive. You would need to come up with your own route between Purcellville and Front Royal, but there are plenty of tracks on sights such as Ride With GPS where people have ridden between the two.
In Front Royal you can take the Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park, a distance of 105 miles. The southern end of the Skyline Drives is the northern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Trans-America trail intersects the Blue Ridge Parkway there at Afton, Va.
This is the route I would take, but it seems like O.P. is trying to avoid the Appalachians. Having grown up as a young boy in southwest Virginia, I can't figure out why anyone would do that.
