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Sign at south entrance to Skyline Drive. Fees are collected at each of the four entry points to Skyline Drive, which are located in Front Royal, Thornton Gap, Swift Run Gap, and Rockfish Gap. [10] The fee is not a toll charged to drive on the road, but rather an entry fee for the park itself. Various passes allow for admission to the park.
The drive sits on the top of Skyline Ridge, a hogback composed of upturned Dakota sandstone.Outcrops of the Morrison and the Fountain formations can also be seen. Along the drive is the "Dinosaur trackway," a fenced-off area along the road adjacent to some exposed strata, which showcases the fossilized footprints of ankylosaurs walking towards the west.
Skyline Drive entrance sign at Thornton Gap. Thornton Gap is the site of the mountain crossing of U.S. Highway 211. It is located at the border of Page County and Rappahannock County. At Thornton Gap, there is an entry point for the Skyline Drive, which runs between Front Royal and the northern terminus with the Blue Ridge Parkway at Rockfish Gap.
Map of Skyline Drive — the scenic parkway in the Blue Ridge Mountains, within Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Date: 17 May 2014: Source: Own work, data from U.S ...
The junction of the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive (SR 48) at Rockfish Gap. The following highways in Virginia have also been known as State Route 48: State Route 48, 1928 to the mid-1930s, now part of SR 40. U.S. Route 48, early 2000s to the present, concurrent with the westernmost 14 miles (23 km) of SR 55.
April 28, 1997 (Shenandoah National Park, from the N entrance station at Front Royal to the S entrance station at Rockfish Gap: Luray: Boundary increase (listed September 19, 1997): Within Shenandoah National Park, areas known as Headquarters, Big Meadows, Dickey Ridge, Simmons Gap, and Piney R; Boundary increase (listed December 5, 2003): Shenandoah National Park, Skyland, Lewis Mountain and ...
Old Bluff Road near main entrance 140 feet (43 m) Congaree River: 80 feet (24 m) ... Skyline Drive map and profile – Skyline Drive runs the length of Shenandoah.
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