St. Mary's Wilderness

Located in the George Washington National Forest in Virginia.

The St. Mary's Wilderness is 9,835 acres of solitude and spectacular scenery, offering the hiker, camper, fisherman and photographer enjoyment of special features including vast quartzite rock slides, a picturesque double waterfall, and miniature canyons of angular rocks along heavily forested river banks.

The wilderness encompasses the upper parts of St. Mary's, Cedra Hollow and Spyum drainages on the western slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

For more information contact: The George Washington National Forest.




Published: 29 Apr 2002 | Last Updated: 14 Jul 2011
Details mentioned in this article were accurate at the time of publication

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