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Title Rocky Knob Park (Rocky Knob in distance)
Title Note Taken from point half way up the hill toward the proposed lodge site
Date August 1936
Description Image shows a view of Rocky Knob Park as seen from a point half way up a hill toward the proposed lodge site. A dirt road runs up the hill toward the proposed site, and dead and living trees stand on the hillside. Rocky Knob is visible in the distance. 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, Va.
Location Location Name: Milepost 168
Parkway Milepost: 168.0
Latitude: 36.822371
Longitude: -80.342472
Creator Individual Albert S. Burns
Tags Dead trees
Floyd County (Va.)
Graded road
Photographs
Proposed sites
Rocky Knob (Va.)
Trees
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway