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The Destruction of the Virginia Creeper Trail - Whitetop to Damascus - September 2024

Examples of Trail Damage - Page 2


There were handicapped accessible fishing platforms near Creek Junction. They are all gone.


Example near Trestle 29 of how all the top surface got washed away.


Fiber optic crew near Taylor's Valley. Trail is about six feet wide here with the rest washed away.


Part of a straight washout near Trestle 29.


Example near Trestle 37 of how Helene ate away the Creeper's trailbed.


Near Trestle 37 nothing is left of the trail or the old railroad bed.


An ALDHA cleanup crew walks on the old railroad ties which were exposed by the flood.

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