Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail, VA

This is our home trail. We’ve been riding it together for 36 years and boy, are we sick of it! 

Just kidding. Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park is a 45-mile long rail-to-trail that runs through Northern Virginia from Arlington (across the Potomac River from DC) to Purcellville (in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains).  It could also be called the Dominion Energy Utility Poles Trail since power lines loom overhead for most of it (and can sometimes be heard crackling with electricity if you stop to listen).   

Named after our friend, Mark Cook, this is an unrelenting 2-mile climb (it only looks flat!) east toward DC.

 

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