Swift Run Gap is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains located in the U.S. state of Virginia. At an elevation of 2,365 feet (721 m), it is the site of...

Royal, US 211 in Thornton Gap, US 33 in Swift Run Gap and US 250 near I-64 in Rockfish Gap. At the south end in Rockfish Gap it connects to the northern...

terrain. Examples of wind gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia include Swift Run Gap, Rockfish Gap, and Buford's Gap. The last was the original...

April 19, his men marched 20 miles east out of the Shenandoah valley to Swift Run Gap. Banks occupied New Market and crossed Massanutten Mountain to seize...

climbs the western slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains to reach Swift Run Gap, a wind gap located at an elevation of 2,365 feet (721 m). The bucolic Skyline...

attempting the more formidable Swift Run Gap, the Blue Ridge Railroad built over the mountains at the next gap to the south, Rockfish Gap near Afton Mountain, from...

of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition of 1716 crossed the Blue Ridge at Swift Run Gap and reached the river at Elkton, Virginia. Settlers did not immediately...

38°17′37″N 078°36′19″W / 38.29361°N 78.60528°W / 38.29361; -78.60528 Swift Run Gap 1499423 Flattop Mountain VA Rockingham 38°50′22″N 078°58′04″W / 38...

point. There they crossed the top ridge of the Blue Ridge mountains at Swift Run Gap (elevation 2,365 feet). On September 6, 1716, they rode down into the...

mountains, it reduces to two lanes and becomes three lanes a few times. At Swift Run Gap it intersects Skyline Drive and enters Greene County. After going down...

cavalry—up and down the Valley and through various mountain gaps, such as Swift Run Gap and Thornton Gap, and make sudden appearances in front of Union troops...

They crossed the mountains passing through a gorge by the name of Swift Run Gap at an altitude of 720 m, bordered by two mountain peaks. Spotswood named...

more formidable Swift Run Gap, the state-owned Blue Ridge Railroad built over the mountains at the next major gap to the south, Rockfish Gap near Afton Mountain...

These early private facilities at Skyland Resort, Panorama Resort, and Swift Run Gap were operated only for whites. By 1937, the Park Service accepted a...

Piedmont region with the Great Valley, include Thornton Gap, Swift Run Gap, and Rockfish Gap. Another series of mountains bounds the southern Great Valley...

he reportedly had done himself. The 235 acres was near the storied Swift Run Gap. Six years on, in 1745, White leased and later purchased land just north...

trail run in Fort Valley, Va with a division called "Stonewall Jackson Foot Cavalry Division". Blue Ridge Tunnel Rockfish Gap Swift Run Gap Thornton Gap Mason...

North Carolina Swatara Gap – Pennsylvania Swift Run Gap – Virginia Thornton Gap – Virginia Thoroughfare Gap – Virginia Wilson Gap – Virginia, West Virginia...

begins a curvaceous ascent of the Blue Ridge, cresting the mountain at Swift Run Gap at an elevation of 2,365 feet (721 m), where the highway crosses the...

Laurel Gap east northeast of Bootens Gap Bootens Gap between Powell Mountain and Jones Mountain Swift Run Gap on U.S. Route 33 Smith Roach Gap northeast...

(22.0 km) river in the U.S. state of Virginia. Rising northeast of Swift Run Gap in Shenandoah National Park, the river flows southeast to the Rapidan...

October 1864, his son, 1st Lieutenant John Rodgers Meigs, was killed at Swift Run Gap in Virginia and was buried at a Georgetown Cemetery. Lt. Meigs was part...

over the mountains at Rockfish Gap, was chosen as a better alternative than the original plan to cross at Swift Run Gap to the north. In 1847, the charter...

across the state line, McDaniel Road Swift Run Gap Turnpike Fredericksburg - Orange - Stanardsville - Swift Run Gap - Elkton VA Route 3, VA Route 20, Scuffletown...

emigrant of Leicestershire, who acquired a land grant in 1739 near the Swift Run Gap and Ruckersville, Virginia. Conyers appears on the 1782 tax lists and...

railroad had found that a planned crossing of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Swift Run Gap was financially unfeasible. To protect its investment and enable transportation...

(200 ha), prompting closures of Skyline Drive from mile markers 65 at Swift Run Gap to 79 at Loft Mountain. Additionally, more than a dozen hiking trails...

construct a rail line from Orange, the western terminus of the PF&P, across Swift Run Gap into the Shenandoah Valley. The total cost of the 93-mile-long Shenandoah...

terminus Page Thornton Gap 31.5 50.7 US 211 – Washington, DC, Luray Thornton Gap Entrance Station, interchange Rockingham Swift Run Gap 65.5 105.4 US 33 –...

Sheridan's troops. As Meigs and his assistants rode at dusk along the old Swift Run Gap Road, which intersected Warm Springs Turnpike between Harrisonburg and...