Shenandoah National Park News

Saturday, December 5, 2009 By Susan Thompson Shenandoah Valley, VA - In the early morning hours, it started to snow here, and it is continuing.A There are no signs of the snow letting up soon.

More guns in national parks will mean more gun-related incidents in national parks, the head of a park service retiree organization warned in a recent talk to the local chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club, the Shining Mountains Group.

Five people were sent to the hospital Friday after a head-on crash near Skyline Drive.

For Darrell David Rice, there may be something of a silver lining to spending the past nine months in federal prison: he has an airtight alibi for the night of October 17, when 20-year-old Morgan Harrington disappeared after attending a Metallica concert at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville.

'I had gone on the southern end of the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park in search of some fall colors,' Jesus Perez said.

Students from the Mountain Laurel Montessori School in Front Royal gathered Wednesday morning in Shenandoah National Park to clear away invasive non-native plants along the Appalachian Trail.

In September 2010, the Blue Ridge Parkway will turn 75 years old. Many events and celebrations will be held in honor of this occasion.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a venerable institution in our part of the world. This scenic drive runs 469 miles, from Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina .

With much-deserved fanfare, Great Smoky Mountains National Park celebrated its 75th anniversary last summer.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 By Susan Thompson WASHINGTON, D.C. - " To honor America's service men and women, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that areas managed by the department will not charge entrance fees on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

Published: November 2, 2009 Updated: November 2, 2009 "Consumable Tourism" is a term that I coined after a meeting in Sperryville with representatives of the Virginia Tourism Corporation in February.

Beginning March 1, 2010, Shenandoah National Park will institute an Outside Firewood Ban in an attempt to slow the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer.

For those of you who missed this column Wednesday and Sunday, I was on vacation and I apologize.

Stretches of Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park will be closed at night during hunting season to fight poaching.

Shorter days and cooler nights remind us that the autumn travel season will come to an end, and signal the closing of facilities at Shenandoah National Park.

Some people around the Valley are seeing snow less than a month into the fall season.

Part 2 in a series of places to stay in the Shenandoah Valley: Woodstock - Folks have another great place to stay in the Shenandoah Valley now.

October is the busiest month for Skyline Drive. With fall colors peaking, visitors from around the country make their way there.

A million dollars from the federal stimulus will pay for improvements in the Shenandoah National Park this fall.

The Journey Through Hallowed Ground, the 175-mile route from Monticello to Gettysburg, just got a big financial boost from the federal government.