If you're looking to get
away from the crowds, this is certainly not the place. Just across the
Skyline Drive is Big Meadows Campgrounds,
a large and very popular attraction. Folks come from the campgrounds as well
as those who came just to see the falls and, well, you get the picture. The
main falls, a set of four cascades dropping 71 feet, is only an easy 0.7
mile walk from the parking lot. (That also helps make this place so
popular.)
There
is a parking lot just for visitors to the waterfalls at milepost 50.7 (just
up the road from the entrance to the Big Meadows Campgrounds. There is a
full-time ranger at the campground more than happy to answer any questions
you may have.
Other web sites
about Dark Hollow Falls:
More
information about this and the other more frequented trails in Shenandoah
National Park is available in a $2 guide, Hikes to Waterfalls in Shenandoah National
Park, which can be purchased at any of the Park visitor's Centers, or
on-line at www.snpbooks.org.
This guide is third in a series published by the Shenandoah National Park
Association, a not-for-profit organization established in 1950 to
support the Park's interpretive and educational programs. We have found
their guides very useful.
