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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Tracks
SVT01
Dist: 3.77 mi
Points: 286
Calories: none
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