![]() ![]() The Sarver family owned and lived on the property up until the 1950s. But once you get closer to the Sarver Hollow Shelter, expect the mood to shift. Ashburn The Sarver Hollow ShelterĪs you walk down the 2.5-mile trail, take in the beautiful sights of the valley and Keffer Oak, a 300-year-old tree and one of the tallest on the trail in the South. Tours are also available each year from the Museum of Culpeper History. The Luckstone Quarry has thousands of millennia-old dinosaur tracks imprinted in its basin, which you can freely explore, ooh, and even ahh at. What am I talking about? I’m talking about dinosaur tracks. You hear a massive, prehistoric roar, and from the trees emerges the bulky head of the king of lizards, Tyrannosaurus rex! The last part probably won’t happen, but the footprint thing might, if you take a hike to the Luckstone Quarry in Ashburn. A puddle near you ripples, in time to a thunderous shaking in the woods. Imagine wandering through the Virginia wilderness and stepping onto a giant, three-toed footprint. So, get out there and get back that sense of wonder. Here, we’ve rounded up the inexplicably strange sights that can’t be spoiled until you go out and see them for yourself. We do it by finding the places in the Virginia woods so, so weird that even reading about them on the internet can’t ruin the startling experience of finding them in real life. Now, in this post-digital, overexposed world where Gen Z cyber-gangs roam the metaverse, can we ever get back that sense of mystery? Yes, I assert, we can. Then our parents gave us internet access, and most of the mystery of the world was ruined (the meteorite was just railroad-side slag). Many of us who grew up in Virginia have had the experience of wandering around the woods as a kid and happening upon something we couldn’t quite explain: the concrete ruins of who-knows-what, the bones of a strange-looking animal, a weird rock (meteorite?!). ![]()
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