Virginia.  Shenandoah National Park.  Central Section
Page 05.  Doubletop Mountain

 

Maps:

Books:

      Historical books:

Notes: Appalachian Trail (AT) is always blazed White

         In the Shenandoah Nat. Park Blue blazed trails are for hikers only, and Yellow are shared between horse riders and hikers

           The maps and books listed above are for the whole park, not just for this page

           Hikes in this section are organized North to South and then by date

 

 

Hike 1.  Rose River Fire Road - Doubletop Horse Trail - Rt. 670

 

Club: Jack's Trace.  Jack's merged trace

Date: 03/04/2006

Parking: good for up to 5 cars

Topo! Mid-Atlantic Trace: RoseRiverFireRd_DoubletopHorseTr_Rt670_GPS20060304JThorsen.tpo; RoseRiverFireRd_DoubletopHorseTr_Rt670_GPS20060304Merged_JThorsen.tpo

Warnings: lots of road walking.  Some houses along the roads have vicious dogs.

 

 

Hike 2.  Doubletop - Camp Hoover - Big Meadows

 

Club: Chris Nolen and the Tuesday Group Hikers; my scouting traces and leading for MWROP

Date: 03/18/2003; 10/11/2003; 11/22/2003; 03/30/2004; 10/17/2005; 02/22/2006; 03/22/2009

Parking: good for about 5 cars

Topo! Mid-Atlantic Trace: Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20030318CNolen.tpo; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20031011.tpo; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20031122.tpo; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20040330CNolen.tpo; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20051017.tpo; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20060222CNolen.tpo; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20090322.tpo

Description File: Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20031011.doc; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20031122.doc

GPS TrackMaker Trace: Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20031011.gtm; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20031122.gtm; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20051017.gtm; Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20090322.gtm

Garmin MapSource Trace: Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20090322.gdb

Universal GPS Format: Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20090322.gpx

Notes: one of the best hikes out there.  Also one of the least known.  Also one of the most strenuous.  Different variations are shown here.  I prefer my own, which is the last hike.  Originally this hike was designed by Glenn Palatini, Chris Nolen and Jack Thorsen.

Photo Album: Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20051017 Doubletop_CampHoover_BigMeadows_GPS20090322

 

 

Hike 3.  Doubletop and Chapman Mountains - Rt. 648

 

Club: Jack and William leading for MWROP

Date: 11/09/2002

Parking: good for up to 5 cars

Topo! Mid-Atlantic Trace: Doubletop_ChapmanMtnTr_Rt648_GPS20021109.tpo

Description File: Doubletop_ChapmanMtnTr_Rt648_GPS20021109.doc

GPS TrackMaker Trace: Doubletop_ChapmanMtnTr_Rt648_GPS20021109.gtm; Doubletop_ChapmanMtnTr_Rt648_GPS20021109Map.gtm - last file is 3.8MByte because it includes an underlying scan of the section of the PATC map 10

Warnings: strenuous, lots of road walking

 

 

Hike 4.  Doubletop Loop and Side Trails

 

Club: in both cases my scouting with different people; I also decided to put the merges map of all the Doubletop trails compiled by Jack

Date: 12/21/2002; 04/20/2003; 04/19/2003

Parking: good

Topo! Mid-Atlantic Trace: DoubletopLoop_GPS20021221.tpo; DoubletopLoopPlus_GPS20030420.tpo; Doubletop_GPS20030419Merged_JThorsen.tpo

Description File: DoubletopLoop_GPS20021221.doc; DoubletopLoopPlus_GPS20030420.doc

GPS TrackMaker Trace: DoubletopLoop_GPS20021221.gtm; DoubletopLoopPlus_GPS20030420.gtm

Warnings: some road walking.  Lots of gain on the second trip

 

 

Hike 5.  Doubletop South - Chapman Mountain Trail

 

Club: Jack and me scouting

Date: 09/08/2002

Parking: the road to the parking used to be horrible, designed for the 4WD cars with high clearance.  Don't know how it is now

Topo! Mid-Atlantic Trace: DoubletopSouth_ChapmanMtnTr_GPS20020908.tpo

Description File: DoubletopSouth_ChapmanMtnTr_GPS20020908.doc

 

 

Hike 6.  Doubletop South with Side Trails

 

Club: my scouting

Date: 09/04/2004

Parking: good

Topo! Mid-Atlantic Trace: ..\AB_ShenandoahNPCentral\05DoubletopMtn\DoubletopSouthSideTrails_GPS20040904.tpo

GPS TrackMaker Trace: ..\AB_ShenandoahNPCentral\05DoubletopMtn\DoubletopSouthSideTrails_GPS20040904.gtm

Warnings: very strenuous

 


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