Open balds, and ponies that keep them open
The Grayson Highlands balds are maintained partly by grazing, and the ponies are a management tool as much as an attraction.
Mountains
The high end, and what only lives there
Blue Ridge, Mount Rogers, the spruce-fir remnant.
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Mountains
The highest ground holds a forest from a colder era
Mount Rogers carries a spruce-fir community that is a relic of a colder climate, isolated on the summit as the rest of the range warmed.
A road built through a park that was assembled around it
Shenandoah was assembled in the 1930s from land acquired for the purpose, and Skyline Drive is the spine that assembly was organised along.
Where this section is
3 placesMount Rogers, Grayson Highlands, Skyline Drive — lit against the other places named across this site.
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All sections- The highest ground holds a forest from a colder eraMount Rogers carries a spruce-fir community that is a relic of a colder climate, isolated on the summit as the rest of the range warmed.
- Open balds, and ponies that keep them openThe Grayson Highlands balds are maintained partly by grazing, and the ponies are a management tool as much as an attraction.
- A road built through a park that was assembled around itShenandoah was assembled in the 1930s from land acquired for the purpose, and Skyline Drive is the spine that assembly was organised along.