Heritage Trails

Heritage Trails PDF

Author: United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center. Partnerships Branch

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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The Virginia Creeper Trail Companion

The Virginia Creeper Trail Companion PDF

Author: Edward H. Davis

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781570720659

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The 34-mile-long Virginia Creeper Trailer, which runs from Abingdon, Virginia, to the North Carolina line near Whitetop Mountain, is the most poplar trail in Virginia. Each year the trail is visited by more than 25,000 bicyclers, hikers, horseback riders, fishermen, bird-watchers, railroad buffs, and folks just out for a Sunday stroll. The trail offers a convenient and scenic getaway from the stresses of modern life. This guidebook will enable the user to understand the trail's origin as an important railroad and the natural world encountered along this scenic route. With photos, old train schedules, detailed maps, and es-says on geology, trees, wildflowers, fish, birds, and mammals, the companion will enhance the trail experience for anyone who travels this route.

Saving America's Countryside

Saving America's Countryside PDF

Author: Samuel N. Stokes

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1997-08-13

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780801855481

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A new edition of the 1989 classic that received the American Society for Landscape Architects' Honor Award and the Historic Preservation Book Prize. This thoroughly revised and updated second edition reports on changes in conservation over the last eight years. It includes new case studies, more than 50 new illustrations, a section on heritage tourism, and much more. 235 illustrations.