Lewis Falls Trail @Shenendoah

If you are in Virginia, and are interested in venturing into 'the Nature', you will hit at Shenendoah National Park sooner or later.


Got this opportunity to hike the Lewis Falls Trails in Shenondoah National Park (located near Big Meadows camping area) with my office colleagues in November. Though the trail was short (5.3 km; 3.3 mi), it gave me an aooportunity to hike through the most popular trail in Virginia -the Appalacian Trail -that runs through the Shenendoah National Park and extends for more than 3,500 kms in the whole of Northern side of USA. The best thing about the trail is that there are blazes -white colored square marks of 50 x 75 mm (app). size - painted on the trees on the trail at every 100m or so. Helps one gain confidence that one stays 'on track'.

As we reached the Lewis Falls, I had this feeling strike me again -that there would hardly be a match to the great Courtallam falls in Tamilnadu! None of the falls that I've seen in Japan/USA comes even close to the Courtallam falls! You call it magnanimous, gigantic, mammooth, stupendous, enormous..... it all perfectly fits Courtallam falls. Compared to that, even the popular falls in Japan/USA would seem miniature (except perhaps the Niagra). I've seen Nachi Taki, Tendaki and the one near Mt.Fuji (Oito falls?).... they all look 'sick'.

Should do a long hike in Shenondoah national Park sometime in the near future.