Touring the Shenandoah Valley Backroads

For those who want an indepth and historically interesting book to help explore the Shenandoah Valley area, this is the book to buy. It has a number of short (up to two hours) car tours complete with maps, historical facts and places of interest to visit or drive by. I highly recommend this book to locals and visitors alike. I gave this book as a gift to friends who live just north of the Shenandoah Valley area for their own use and that of visitors to their area.

This book is full of great short trips on lesser traveled paths in the Washington DC area. We have done a few and have had a great time discovering some out of the way places. Great as a starting point for further discovery!

This book is truly a work of art. Each of its thirteen driving/walking tours is thoroughly researched, exquisitely detailed, and wonderfully arranged in such a way that they can be enjoyed in as little as two hours, or savored over an entire weekend. In all my years of driving up and down I-81, I never appreciated the depth and intensity of these places that seemed nothing more than exit signs along the interstate. Andrea Sutcliffe's delightful stories of the people that once lived in this valley would be entertaining enough by themselves; seeing first-hand their homes and the towns in which they lived has brought them to life in a way that I am thankful to have experienced and highly recommend to fellow travelers.

I've made good use of this book as we've explored one of the loveliest places in the world, the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and West Virginia. The maps are helpful and the descriptions are valuable history lessons. If you are coming to the Shenandoah, get this book and plan to extend your stay - there is so much to see and do.

HOW WONDERFUL TO RELIVE THE VIRGINIA BACKROADS OF MY "GROWING UP YEARS" THE DESCRIPTIONS AND LOVELY PICTURES WERE A PURE DELIGHT. I ORDERED SEVERAL FOR MY FRIENDS. I FELT I HAD RENEWED ALL THE BEAUTIFUL SITES OF MY CHILDHOOD. THANKS ANDREA