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Wilderness Road State Park, Ewing, VA

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Wilderness Road State Park

Virginia state park near Cumberland Gap with a reconstructed 1775 frontier fort, a visitor center, and a 6.5-mile multiuse trail.

8051 Wilderness Rd., Ewing, VA 24248 · Ewing, VA

About Wilderness Road State Park

This state park sits where the historic Wilderness Road crossed southwestern Virginia. Its visitor center includes a theater showing a docudrama about the road, a frontier museum, and a gift shop. Outdoors, the reconstructed Martin's Station serves as a living history museum portraying life on the 1775 frontier, with daily programs. The park also has the 1870s Karlan Mansion, which is rented for weddings and meetings. Visitors can hike, bike, or ride horses on the 6.5-mile Wilderness Road Trail, fish for stocked trout in Indian Creek, rent picnic shelters, and use a playground and sand volleyball court. Primitive group camping is available.

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