The Field Atlas
0/363Hills chapter · 39.02° N · 79.37° W
A high heath barren of blueberry, sphagnum, and wind-flagged spruce. A piece of Canada misplaced on an Appalachian plateau.
The Sods were once a spruce forest, then a sheep pasture, then a bombing range. Now they are a red blueberry plain in October, with sandstone outcrops like beached whales.
A private leaf
Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.
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Opening the leaf…
Onward
The nearest plates, by the miles.
Blackwater Falls9 miles · West VirginiaCCCXIV
Spruce Knob24 miles · West VirginiaCCLXXXIX
Shenandoah62 miles · VirginiaXLIX
Cranberry Glades74 miles · West VirginiaCCCLII
New River Gorge113 miles · West VirginiaL
Grayson Highlands202 miles · VirginiaCCLXXVII
Ricketts Glen227 miles · PennsylvaniaCCCXV
Assateague234 miles · Maryland / VirginiaLIFold-out
