{"id":347,"date":"2009-07-03T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T01:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2010-03-16T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:06:13","slug":"skyline-drive-through-shenandoah-mountain-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/skyline-drive-through-shenandoah-mountain-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyline Drive through Shenandoah Mountain National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days on the road: 5<br \/>\nDay mileage: 363<br \/>\nJF total mileage: 3354<br \/>\nGale total mileage: 1822<br \/>\nStates\/Provinces: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>Skyline was definitely more crowded with both people and wildlife. I saw a buck walking toward the road, a doe eating right at the edge of the road, and I had 2 different black bears run across the road in front of me (no pictures since both were on curves and disappeared into the brush right away).<\/p>\n<p>The speed limit for the entire 105 miles of Skyline drive is 35 MPH. Considering I came around curves 2 times to find a vehicle parked in the road in front of me, it\u2019s a good thing I wasn\u2019t going any faster.<\/p>\n<p>We head into Pennsylvania after leaving the park to stay at Jonestown KOA and have dinner at \u201cThe Buck\u201d complete with Karaoke entertainment in the bar next door.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-347 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/smnppan.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/smnppan-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-354\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-354'>\n\t\t\t\tShenandoah Mountain National Park\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jonestown2.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jonestown2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-355\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-355'>\n\t\t\t\tJonestown KOA\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jonestown1.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jonestown1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-356\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-356'>\n\t\t\t\tJonestown KOA\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/smnp.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/smnp-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-371\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-371'>\n\t\t\t\tSkyline Drive\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days on the road: 5 Day mileage: 363 JF total mileage: 3354 Gale total mileage: 1822 States\/Provinces: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania Skyline was definitely more crowded with both people and wildlife. I saw a buck walking toward the road, a doe eating right at the edge of the road, and I had 2 different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-trip_reporting","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}