Virginia's Rockfish Gap

[NH Civil War Gal]

https://emergingcivilwar.com/2019/04/12/ecw-weekender-rockfish-gap/

Driving on Virginia's Interstate 64? You'll cross Rockfish Gap to leave or enter the Shenandoah Valley and drive right through a place of history. Situated about 16 miles east of Staunton and just above Waynesboro, the gap offers a crossing in the Blue Ridge Mountains and was a route for armies during the Civil War.

Rockfish Gap on a cloudy day

Rockfish Gap is one of the lowest crossing points at just 1,900 feet above sea level. Early colonial settlers used the area as they headed into the Shenandoah Valley. The original route probably followed an east/west trail used by Native American, but the the 1780's a more developed road allowed carriages to cross the gap while inns and taverns located about every ten miles welcomed a traveler on his journey to Richmond or the frontier.

Go to the link to read more about Rockfish Gap and how the armies used it.

 

[Lubliner]

A favorite place of mine. That area near Waynesboro had a rustic campground named Sherando Lake. My earliest memories date back to that place on summer evenings as a child of 4, with its crackling campfire, canvas tent, army cot smells, and the lakeside, where every rock I chose to throw landed in the same place; ker-plunk... where was I?....oh yeah!
Lubliner.