Shenandoah National Park
A long, narrow national park along the Blue Ridge Mountains, with the Shenandoah Valley on one side and the Virginia Piedmont on the other. Skyline Drive follows the ridgeline for its whole length, and Hawksbill Mountain, its highest point, reaches 1,235 metres.
- Where
- Luray, Virginia, United States
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 38.5333, -78.3500
Get the Shenandoah National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Shenandoah National Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Virginia volume with your photos and a note.
Near Shenandoah National Park
Monticello 59 km
Thomas Jefferson's hilltop home outside Charlottesville, a house he designed himself and kept reworking for decades. The plantation around it was worked by enslaved people, whose lives the estate now presents alongside his, and the house appears on the American nickel.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 89 km
The National Air and Space Museum's huge hangar beside Dulles Airport, built for the aircraft and spacecraft too big for the museum on the Mall. Under one roof are the Space Shuttle Discovery, an SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde and the Boeing 367-80.
Mount Vernon 112 km
George and Martha Washington's estate on the banks of the Potomac, about 25 kilometres south of Washington, D.C. The columned mansion looks out over the river, and the grounds hold the Washingtons' tomb and the quarters of the people enslaved there.
Arlington National Cemetery 118 km
The largest of the national cemeteries, where more than 400,000 people lie across 259 hectares of hillside above the Potomac. Rows of white headstones lead to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, with its changing of the guard, and to the grave of John F. Kennedy.
Washington National Cathedral 119 km
An Episcopal cathedral modelled on the English Gothic of the late 14th century, begun in 1907 and only completed in 1990. It is the second largest church building in the United States, and a carved Darth Vader hides among the grotesques of its northwest tower.
Lincoln Memorial 120 km
A neoclassical temple at the western end of the National Mall, built to honour Abraham Lincoln and dedicated in 1922. Inside sits Daniel Chester French's great marble statue of him, looking east down the Reflecting Pool towards the Washington Monument.
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial 120 km
A national memorial in West Potomac Park built around the Stone of Hope, a granite figure of the civil rights leader carved by the sculptor Lei Yixin. Its design comes from a line in the I Have a Dream speech: out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. It opened in 2011.
World War II Memorial 120 km
A national memorial on the Mall to the Americans who served in the Second World War, in the armed forces and at home. Granite pillars for each state and territory ring an oval plaza and fountain between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
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Questions
Where is Shenandoah National Park?
Shenandoah National Park is in Luray, Virginia, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Monticello (59 km), Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (89 km), Mount Vernon (112 km).
How do I get the Shenandoah National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Shenandoah National Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Virginia volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Shenandoah National Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Virginia volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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