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Title Looking toward upper picnic area and Rocky Knob
Title Note Taken from point one-half way up hill toward proposed lodge site
Date August 1936
Description Image shows the view looking north toward the upper picnic area and Rocky Knob. The image was taken from a point halfway uphill toward a proposed lodge site. There is a dirt road curving up the hillside across from the camera. There is a tree with overhanging branches in the foreground. Image taken by Albert S. Burns in August of 1936. Image taken near milepost 168.5 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 Dead trees
Floyd County (Va.)
Graded road
Photographs
Picnic grounds
Proposed sites
Rocky Knob (Va.)
Trees
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway