Smart View Trail - Blue Ridge Parkway
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Smart View Recreational Area offers several hiking trails and picnic areas. Located along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Smart View also offers excellent views of the Virginia Piedmont. The loop trail is a 3 mile hike.
moderate
Distance 5.1 km
Smart View Recreational Area offers several hiking trails and picnic areas. Located along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Smart View also offers excellent views of the Virginia Piedmont. Various trails meander through moist deciduous woodlands, hardwood forests, and open fields. This site is great place to bird during spring migration, but summer also is productive with breeders such as hooded, Kentucky, and black-and white warblers, Acadian and great-crested flycatchers, blue-gray gnatcatcher, yellow-throated and red-eyed vireos, chipping sparrow, brown thrasher, and scarlet tanager.
3 mile loop trail
Beautiful vistas
Directions to Trailhead:
From the intersection of US 220 and the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Roanoke, go southwest on the Blue Ridge Parkway for 33.0 miles to the Smart View Recreation Area on the left.
Located at milepost 154
Add On:
Continue south on the Blue Ridge Parkway to milepost 171.5 where you will find Chateau Morrisett - a winery and restaurant (540.593.2865)
Roanoke Outside Land Activities and Attractions visit the website.
3 mile loop trail
Beautiful vistas
Directions to Trailhead:
From the intersection of US 220 and the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Roanoke, go southwest on the Blue Ridge Parkway for 33.0 miles to the Smart View Recreation Area on the left.
Located at milepost 154
Add On:
Continue south on the Blue Ridge Parkway to milepost 171.5 where you will find Chateau Morrisett - a winery and restaurant (540.593.2865)
Roanoke Outside Land Activities and Attractions visit the website.

Author
Roanoke Outside
Update: May 10, 2017
Difficulty
moderate
Technique
Stamina
Highest point
810 m
Lowest point
744 m
Track types
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Coordinates:
DD
36.927937, -80.189787
DMS
36°55'40.6"N 80°11'23.2"W
UTM
17S 572158 4087184
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Coordinates
DD
36.927937, -80.189787
DMS
36°55'40.6"N 80°11'23.2"W
UTM
17S 572158 4087184
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Arrival by train, car, foot or bike
Difficulty
moderate
Distance
5.1 km
Duration
1:27 h
Ascent
108 m
Descent
112 m
Highest point
810 m
Lowest point
744 m
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