The sun finally decided to come out for us this weekend - yay! Yesterday I was throwing a baby shower for my good friend Michiko so I had to make sure I got out today. What I really wanted to do was a nice hike, but I am finding that it is quite difficult for me to get up early on most weekends... and er, days. Plus, I don't always have time to take the whole day out to go couple hours away for a nice long hike. Today I was looking for something closer to home and medium length hike. I had already been to Bull Run, Raven Rock, Sky Meadow SP, and Harpers Ferry - all fitting the less than 1 hour away & taking about 3 hours to hike criteria. Fortunately, there was still the Manassas National Battlefield Park.
The hike that we did was called the Bull Run hike, although there really wasn't much of an elevation to call it a hike. It still took couple hours tho since the trail was ~5.5 miles. Although it wasn't challenging, it was an interesting walk. The trail takes you past canons, Stonewall Jackson statue, stone bridge, stone house, and some deer (well, they were there for us). The view is probably most similar to that of the Sky Meadow SP hike. You don't get anykind of an overlook but that of a meadow. The theme was similar to that of the hike at Harpers Ferry - another civil war site.
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