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Title Truggle Gap
Title Note From Saddle Parking Area
Date 20th Century
Description Image shows an open view of Truggle [Tuggle] Gap, as seen from an overlook in the Saddle Parking Area. The view shows the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Blue Ridge Parkway winding through a valley, with trees, open pasture land, and fences scattered on both sides of the road. Trees appear in the foreground and run down to the parkway below. Image taken near Rocky Knob, somewhere between mileposts 165-174 and section 1S of the Blue Ridge Parkway, in Patrick County and Floyd County, Va. The photographer and date of the image are unknown.
Location Location Name: Rocky Knob (Va.)
Parkway Milepost: 168.2
Latitude: 36.819444
Longitude: -80.342222
Creator Individual Unknown
Tags Floyd County (Va.)
Pastures
Patrick County (Va.)
Photographs
Recreational areas
Rocky Knob (Va.)
Scenic overlooks
Trees
Tuggle Gap (Va.)
View of road
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway