Rockfish Gap
Virginia
Rockfish Gap is one of the lowest passes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, sitting at roughly nineteen hundred feet, and it has been a crossing point for centuries. Native Americans used it first, on trails later widened for colonial travel, and by the seventeen forties the Three Notched Road linked Richmond to the Shenandoah Valley right through this notch.
Today the gap is a genuine crossroads of American travel history. Interstate Sixty-Four passes through on its way between Charlottesville and Staunton. The Appalachian Trail crosses here too. And the gap marks mile zero of the Blue Ridge Parkway, whose four hundred sixty-nine ridge-top miles begin right at this point, while Skyline Drive's southern terminus sits just above.
