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Mount Rogers National Recreation Area is a United States national recreation area (NRA) in southwestern Virginia near the border with Tennessee and North Carolina. It centerpiece is the Lewis Fork Wilderness containing Mount Rogers , the highest point in the state of Virginia with a summit elevation of 5,729 feet (1746 m).
The Mount Rogers area contains a unique record of the geohistory of Virginia. There is evidence from the rocks that volcanoes were part of the landscape. Roughly 760 million years ago, rift-related (divergent) volcanoes erupted along the axis of what later became the Appalachians, and one remnant of that volcanic zone, with its volcanic rocks, still can be seen at Mount Rogers.
The Lewis Fork Wilderness is an area in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area protected by the Eastern Wilderness Act of Congress to maintain its present, natural condition. As part of the wilderness system, it is intended to preserve a variety of natural life forms and contribute to a diversity of plant and animal gene pools.
The wilderness is located at the east end of Mount Rogers Recreation Area. near the town of Speedwell in Wythe County. [2] It is bounded on the east by US 21, and on the south and west by the Virginia Highlands Horse Trail. The northern boundary is about 1 mile south of VA 612. [3]
A visitor center on Va 16 has maps and information about the area. The nearest towns are Marion, 7 miles north of the visitor center, and Damascus, near the Virginia-Tennessee border. [3] Roads and trails are given on National Geographic Maps 786 (Mount Rogers)., [4] Map 318 (Mount Rogers High Country) [5] and Map 783 (South Holston and Watauga ...
Additional roads and trails are given on National Geographic Maps 786 (Mount Rogers). [5] and Map 318 (Mount Rogers High Country) [4] A great variety of information, including topographic maps, aerial views, satellite data and weather information, is obtained by selecting the link with the wild land's coordinates in the upper right of this page ...
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The Little Wilson Creek Wilderness is an area in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area protected by the Eastern Wilderness Act of Congress to maintain its present, natural condition. As part of the wilderness system, it is intended to preserve a variety of natural life forms and contribute to a diversity of plant and animal gene pools.