Come walk in
the wooded setting of Sterling's Claude Moore Park on Saturday, June 7, with
the Loudoun Walking Club for National Trails Day. Follow one or both of the
3-mile (5-kilometer) well-marked trails at your own pace. Start anytime between
8 am and 1 pm; just finish by 4 pm.
This walk is
free; everyone is welcome--even families with children in strollers and wagons.
See historic Lanesville Ordinary on the National Register of Historic Places
and the Frogshackle log cabin, explore the discovery room in the visitors
center and an interpretative tree trail, walk up a short hill to Mount Sterling
where the Union had a signal station and Confederate Colonel John Mosby's men
spied on Union supply convoys, and walk along the lone remaining stretch of Old
Vestal's Gap Road--an Indian path later used by British troops and as a
Colonial highway.
Only for
walkers enrolled in the IVV's volkssport achievement awards program there is a
$3 registration fee to be eligible for credit toward those awards. (For
information about volkssports go to www.ava.org.)
The club will
be grilling bratwurst and bratwurst, and selling them and soda at family
prices.
For more information about this and other
club walks go to
http://www.ava.org/gen3//data/clubevents_results.asp?club=AVA-0892. Plug
21544 Old Vestals Gap Rd, Sterling, VA 20164 into your GPS or Google Maps
on-line for directions.
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Contact Bob
Wright at 703-737-2175 or rcwright_va@comcast.net for additional information.
The Loudoun
Walking Club also offers nine self-guided opportunities in Loudoun County for
your year-round walking
enjoyment.
