Tuscarora Trail - The "V" Tree Traditional Cache
Tuscarora Trail - The "V" Tree
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The Tuscarora Trail is challenging, the SCENERY IS MAGNIFICENT and it's a beautiful natural setting. Several caches have been placed along this trail in the Berkeley and Morgan County area.
The Tuscarora Trail runs about 250 miles, connecting the Appalachian Trail west of Harrisburg, Pa., to the Appalachian Trail south of Front Royal, Va., in Shenandoah National Park.
The Tuscarora/Great Eastern Trail relocation through beautiful Devils Nose Canyon, in Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area, has just recently open. The new Tuscarora Trail runs from Spruce Pine Hollow Road thru the Devils Nose Area to Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area. Hiking from Spruce Pine Hollow to the Devil’s Nose Parking Area is approximately 3.5 miles. You will experience a total elevation change of about 1600 Ft.
Hikers/Caches will have a couple of choices. (1) Hiker/Cachers can park at either Devil's Nose Parking area or park at the Spruce Pine Hollow Park on Route 9 or (2) the other option would be with a partner you can leave a vehicle at each location and hike one way.
The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) has been working on the relocation for (4) four years. Improvements will continue during 2010. A new bridge over Meadow Branch is planned for later in the year.
To see a map of the new trail the PATC Newsletter can be accessed at (visit link) with the Tuscarora Trail info on page 4. A separate map shows the trail relocation. Many thanks to the PATC for their tireless efforts to improve this trail.
The trail consists of painted BLUE blazes on trees.
If you are entering from Spruce Pine Hollow parking area follow the white blazed trail from the south side of the Park a short distance to the Tuscarora Trail along the Meadow Branch creek. The Tuscarora Trail heading south immediately crosses the creek.
The trail climbs steadily through one of Morgan County’s most beautiful spruce forests and continues uphill along some dirt roads and past a few houses. A very steep climb up the northern end of Sleepy Creek Mountain follows. From here the trail enters Sleepy Creek WMA and follows the crest of Sleepy Creek Mountain along the Berkeley/Morgan county line until it descends the eastern slope to the next access point at Sleepy Creek Lake.
There are many interesting features along the new trail. Hiking from the north, there is a beautiful view of the Tuscarora Mountain to the north in Pennsylvania, interesting rock formations as well as cliff views of Meadow Branch in the canyon below, and the interesting change from deciduous trees with mountain laurel (May blooms) to hemlocks and rhododendron (June blooms) when descending into the cooler Devils Nose Canyon. The white- blazed Fisherman’s Trail leads into a less accessible area should you wish to spend more time in the canyon.
Info on this cache : Terrain Rating is based on the entire hike. Your looking for a small lock-in-lock at the "V"
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