Darkness stretches ahead, cool and still, broken only by the faint echo of footsteps moving through stone shaped long before ...

Step into Virginia’s Blue Ridge Tunnel where history, forest beauty, and timeless adventure meet beneath the mountains.

STAUNTON — The first floor of the R.R. Smith Center for History and Art will be abuzz with excitement on Friday, Sept. 6, from 5-8 p.m. On that evening, all of the history and art galleries will be ...

The Eastern Portal of the Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel Trail. Photo courtesy Jack Looney. WMRA’s Books & Brews will feature on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m., Mary Lyons, author of The Blue Ridge ...

Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel Trail: Photo courtesy Jack Looney. The exhibit is their story. Using hand drills, picks, shovels, hammers, gunpowder and fuses, they opened up the mountain inch by ...

There are no photos of workers and very few written documents chronicling its construction, but upon its completion in 1860 the Blue Ridge Tunnel at Rockfish Gap was the longest mountain tunnel in the ...

Mahon once visited the Blue Ridge Tunnel with his son and renowned Irish fiddler Frankie Gavin. Mahon played tin whistle, Gavin fiddled and the son played the bodhran. Their music echoed off the ...

As I rigged up a helmet-mounted light for my ride in the Eastern Trailhead of the Blue Ridge Tunnel, cars began filling the parking lot with other people who had the same idea. “I hope it’s like pitch ...

A view of history and a taste of local wine, beer or cider — that’s what the “Hops and Headlamps” tour is all about. Participants can walk through and experience the old Crozet Tunnel and enjoy a ...