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Title Rocky Knob Park
Title Note View looking from base of Rocky Knob toward proposed lodge site
Date August 1936
Description Image shows a view of Rocky Knob Park, looking from the base of Rocky Knob toward the proposed lodge site. A dirt road runs along the bottom of the photograph. There are isolated trees in the foreground, and more trees beyond the road on a hillside. Image taken by Albert S. Burns in August of 1936. Image taken near milepost 168 in section 1S of the Blue Ridge Parkway, in Rocky Knob Park in Floyd County, Va.
Location Location Name: Milepost 168
Parkway Milepost: 168.0
Latitude: 36.822371
Longitude: -80.342472
Creator Individual Albert S. Burns
Tags Floyd County (Va.)
Graded road
Park lodging facilities
Photographs
Proposed sites
Rocky Knob (Va.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway