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| High Bridge |
Okay, first to the important part. In these COVID days, getting a hair appointment is not easy. Deb has an appointment today at 2:00 which sets the agenda. We decided to go to High Bridge Trail Park, a 31 mile linear park (which translates to 31 miles of railroad bed turned into a bike/hike trail), yesterday instead of today. This turned out to be an excellent choice because what we wanted to see was the high bridge, not the other 30.75 miles of railroad bed. Our first two or three entrances to the park were no where near the bridge. Finally, we found the Camp Paradise entrance which was a couple miles of washboard gravel road but ended very close to the bridge. It’s a 2,400 foot span, 150 over the Appomattox River. It is rich in Civil War history as the final retreat of the Confederate Army. There were still trains on the tracks as late as 2008.
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| High Bridge |
With that hike and the 4 mile hike in the morning behind us, we snuggled into our site at Bear Creek Lake (I have no idea why it can’t be just Bear Lake or why Smith Mountain Lake couldn’t just be Smith Lake). The rain came and it cooled off somewhat, but got humid, air on, got cold, air off, made dinner, air on, watched Frozen, air off, went to bed, air on, couldn’t sleep, air off.
This morning, 5 minutes into our little hike, it started to rain, so we made it shorter than usual. This an old park, built by the CCC, it’s rustic building style is called “parkatecture.” Well off to the hair dresser.
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| Bear Creek Lake State Park |
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