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Wilderness Road State Park

8051 Wilderness Road Trail, Ewing, Virginia 24248 USA

Independent

“Where history comes alive”

Wilderness Road offers picnicking, hiking and living history programs. Visitors can enjoy the visitor center, home to a theater showing an award-winning docudrama, Wilderness Road, Spirit of a Nation. The center also has a frontier museum and a gift shop with unique regional gifts.The park features the reconstructed Martin's Station, an outdoor living history museum depicting life on Virginia's 1775 frontier. Guests also enjoy the park's picnic shelters, an ADA-certified playground, a sand volleyball court and horseshoe pits. Visitors can hike, bike or horseback ride on the eight-mile Wilderness Road Trail linking the park with 50 miles of trails in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The 1870s era Karlan Mansion is available for weddings and meetings. It has a solarium that's perfect for showers, birthdays and other special functions.

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Reviewed by
tiffany.cody.31

26 Reviews
17 Helpful

May 28, 2014

Rated 4.0

Although this park isn't as big compared to some others I've been to, it's still a nice little place to go. You can view the historic Martin's Station and the Karlan Mansion (although you're not allowed inside the mansion, you can still walk around the outside and take pictures and such). There are two hiking trails: one is the Indian Ridge Trail, which is short and rather easy and the Wilderness Road Trail which is an 8 mile hike(which I plan to do next time I go). There's also a little playground area for children and several pavilions which are available for use. I would highly recommend going here.

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Reviewed by
rschwartz

34 Reviews
18 Helpful

January 06, 2016

Rated 4.0

Visited here last spring so we were just short of the live reenactments that they have the summer. We still had an enjoyable time walking through the old settlement. The backdrop of the mountains made it a great view as well. The people inside the visitor center were very helpful and friendly. They also have some buffalo outside as well!

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