The Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park offers many trail heads to many wonderful hiking destinations as well as many gorgeous views right from the official overlooks. Photography is breataking whether you go on a trail off the beaten path or hang around the drive. This photograph shows what a sunset view has to offer, looking down and into the distance from Skyline Drive over the Shenandoah Valley.

Shenandoah National Park was established in December 1935. It's main and unique feature is a 105-miles long Skyline Drive along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia offering views of the Shenandoah Valley to the west and Piedmont Plain to the east. Along the drive, one can enjoy approximately 500 miles of hiking trails. The park also offers many picturesque waterfalls made even more beautiful by heaving to hike to them, many requiring a descend of several hundred feet to see them, followed by the same ascend back to the trail head. Many of these hikes take you along creeks where many small cascades offer great views as a prelude to the grand finale at the trails' end.

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