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Title View within wooded or lower picnic area
Date August 1936
Description Image shows a view of a wooded or lower proposed site for a picnic area. There are tree branches and fallen tree trunks on the ground, and trees around the area. Image taken by Albert S. Burns in August of 1936. Image taken near milepost 168.5 of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Rocky Knob Park, in Floyd County, Va.
Commentary 729.1
Location Location Name: Milepost 168
Parkway Milepost: 168.0
Latitude: 36.822371
Longitude: -80.342472
Creator Individual Albert S. Burns
Tags Dead trees
Floyd County (Va.)
Photographs
Picnic grounds
Proposed sites
Rocky Knob (Va.)
Trees
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway