Qualla: Reddish Knob https://qualla.com/reddish-knob en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/d/reddish-knob-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Reddish Knob https://qualla.com/reddish-knob Reddish Knob: Introduction https://qualla.com/reddish-knob/ Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. You can drive to it. That is half the appeal. Reddish Knob, at 4,397 feet, is one of the highest summits in Virginia, sitting on the spine of Shenandoah Mountain along the West Virginia border - and yet a narrow paved road climbs almost all the way to the top. Park, walk a few feet, and you stand on a bald summit with 360-degree views of the central Appalachians. Students from three nearby colleges call it the parking lot in the sky. On clear evenings the parking lot fills with cars whose occupants are not hiking, climbing, or doing anything strenuous. They are watching the sun go down across a hundred miles of folded ridges.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/d/reddish-knob-wp/dnzd-reddish-knob-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Reddish Knob: A Continental Divide in Miniature https://qualla.com/reddish-knob/ Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. Reddish Knob sits on the boundary between Augusta County, Virginia, and Pendleton County, West Virginia, inside the George Washington National Forest. From its summit, water flows in three directions, all eventually reaching the Chesapeake Bay through different rivers. The northw...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/d/reddish-knob-wp/dnzd-reddish-knob-a-continental-divide-in-miniature.mp3 0:06 2 full Reddish Knob: The Fire Tower That Was https://qualla.com/reddish-knob/ Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. From the 1920s until 1975, a steel fire lookout tower stood on Reddish Knob's summit. Forest Service watchers spent fire seasons up there scanning the mountains with binoculars for the first wisp of smoke. The tower came down in the mid-1970s as the agency moved toward aerial sur...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/d/reddish-knob-wp/dnzd-reddish-knob-the-fire-tower-that-was.mp3 0:06 3 full Reddish Knob: A College Town's Mountain https://qualla.com/reddish-knob/ Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. Reddish Knob is the after-class destination for students at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Eastern Mennonite University, and Bridgewater College - all three campuses within easy driving range. The summit becomes a kind of social hub on warm weekends and on autumn night...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/d/reddish-knob-wp/dnzd-reddish-knob-a-college-towns-mountain.mp3 0:06 4 full Reddish Knob: What's Nearby https://qualla.com/reddish-knob/ Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. South of Reddish Knob along the ridge crest, a scenic gravel road follows the Virginia-West Virginia line. The Shenandoah Mountain Picnic Area sits a couple of miles down. Further south, the road enters the Ramsey's Draft Wilderness, where some of the central Appalachians' last o...

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