sugar hollow


Unnaturally felled: Blue Hole rope-swing tree chainsawed Published on Jul 3rd, 2012 36 comments On a just-about perfect June day with school out for the summer, Monticello High sophomore Jack Farrell headed to the legendary swimming hole lying upstream from Sugar Hollow Reservoir– Blue...
Mysterious milky water at Sugar Hollow Published on Jun 12th, 2012 11 comments Pete Myers has been visiting Sugar Hollow for 20 years, and he calls the milky milieu he saw last weekend "astounding." Says Myers, "I've never seen anything like this here, ever." He's not the only...
Turks Gap Road Published on Jul 24th, 2011 11 comments Two kids (who just finished swimming at "Blue Hole" on the south fork of the Moormans River) step off Turks Gap Road– one of the historic highways severed by the 75-year ago creation of the...
Blue Hole on a hot day Published on Jul 23rd, 2011 7 comments On a Saturday that hit 96 in town, temperatures– particularly the water temperatures– were significantly cooler in Blue Hole, a swimming hole just outside the Shenandoah National Park in...
Platanus occidentalis Published on Apr 28th, 2011 0 comments Sugar Hollow Road.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day at billemory.com/blog.
Snap o' the Day: Chilling in Sugar Hollow Published on Apr 27th, 2009 4 comments The north fork of the Moormans River in Shenandoah National Park provided a cool way to deal with the weekend's blistering temps, which reached 91 Saturday and 89 Sunday, the day this image was...