It was still early in the day, but I was anxious to get out of the car and hike a trail. The first good opportunity I found to follow a reasonably short path to something reasonably interesting, was the Blackrock Summit Trail. The Blackrock Summit Trail is actually a combination of two other trails: the Trayfoot Mountain Trail, and the Appalachian Trail (which runs alongside or near Skyline Drive for almost the entire length of the park). The round trip is only about one mile (slightly longer if you scramble up to the top of the peak of Blackrock Summit), […]