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Backpacker Magazine Washington, DC: South Fork Quantico Creek Loop 

Go ahead: Bag work early and swing off the Beltway for a quick 4-mile hike or trail run through the rolling piedmont of Prince William Forest Park.


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Author: Backpacker Magazine
Date: 18 May 2007 9:32:51 AM
Activity: Hiking
State: Virginia (VA)
Distance: 3.77 mi  (Change units)
Survey Elevation: Total Gain: 503 ft
Total Loss: 498 ft
Net Change: 5 ft
Difficulty: 4 / 10
Tags: Virginia, Waterfall Hikes, Prince William Forest Park, Triangle, Washington D.C.
Rating: Unrated   Rate it

TO TRAILHEAD: I-5 to WA 503 E. Road becomes FR 90. Continue on 90 for 30 mi., and turn R after Pine Creek Info Center, staying on FR 90. Go 3.5 mi. to Lewis River Falls Recreation Area. Turn R off entrance road and park.

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Dist: 3.77 mi Points: 286
Time: none Speed: 0.0 mph Pace: 0:00 / mi
South Valley Track

Points of Interest

SVT001

Location: 38.580669°, -77.392792°
Pick up orange-blazed High Meadows Trail heading W. Footnote: In WWII, these forests were used as a training camp for spies

SVT002

Location: 38.581039°, -77.395752°
Hard L; drop down from ridge draped in white and red oak, and over two streams

SVT003

Location: 38.576740°, -77.398987°
Cross wooden bridge in stream-lined hollow and climb over a mound sloping into South Fork Quantico Creek

SVT004

Location: 38.574242°, -77.401894°
R onto white-blazed South Valley Trail; dense ferns on path

SVT005

Location: 38.573830°, -77.404152°
Head up and away from stream on moderate ascent

SVT006

Location: 38.576927°, -77.408905°
Deep cover of young beech and yellow poplar grow in damp creek soils. In 100 yds., cross large wood bridge built by the Sierra Club based on a Michelangelo design

SVT007

Location: 38.577999°, -77.410278°
Waterfall rolls from inky-black Lake 5 over small dam; to W are fields and rustic houses of Happy land Cabin Camp 5 (reservable, some year-round); camp and dam built by CCC in '30s. Follow creek N past boulder piles

SVT008

Location: 38.585178°, -77.412498°
Turn R onto Mawavi Rd. (gravel track) and ascend

SVT009

Location: 38.588520°, -77.406639°
Turn R onto park's Scenic Rd. and wind along plateau

SVT010

Location: 38.586048°, -77.399551°
Road curves S on head of thin ridge back to WPT 2; retrace route to car

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