The Crooked Road: Heritage Music Trail
4 days / 361 miles / 8 hours 32 minutes
"Got the Mule Skinner Blues? Then grab your fiddle and hightail it to western Virginia for a toe-tappin', knee-slappin' good time at the historic country, bluegrass and "old time" music venues that speckle the landscape between the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountain ranges." - Trip 14 of Lonely Planet USA's Best Trips (Regional Travel Guide) by Sara Benson, Amy Balfour, Alison Bing, Jennifer Denniston, Lisa Dunford, Alex Leviton, David Ozanich, Danny Palmerlee, Brandon Presser, Karla Zimmerman.
Photo by Jarek Tuszynski: The Floyd Country Store in Floyd, Virginia, home of famous "Friday Night Jamboree" of bluegrass music.
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Day 1
4:00 pm - 1.6 miles / 4 minutes - 4:05 pm
6:05 pm - 1.8 miles / 3 minutes - 6:09 pm
music every Friday night
8:09 pm - 0.8 miles / 2 minutes - 8:12 pm
Alternative lodging: 5. Hotel Floyd
8:12 pm - 1.0 miles / 3 minutes - 8:16 pm
Day 2
Alternative lodging: 4. Oak Haven Lodge
9:00 am - 0.2 miles / 2 minutes - 9:03 am
10:03 am - 0.1 miles / - 10:04 am
12:04 pm - 67.1 miles / an hour 50 minutes - 1:56 pm
2:56 pm - 10.3 miles / 18 minutes - 3:15 pm
Mountain Barbecue Championship on the second weekend in July - http://www.smokeonthemountainva.com/
3:15 pm - 0.5 miles / 2 minutes - 3:18 pm
5:18 pm - 0.0 miles / - 5:19 pm
6:19 pm - 0.0 miles / - 6:20 pm
Friday night show: Blue Ridge Backroads
8:20 pm - 78.2 miles / an hour 49 minutes - 10:10 pm
Day 3
9:00 am - 0.0 miles / 0 - 9:00 am
10:00 am - 0.4 miles / 2 minutes - 10:03 am
12:03 pm - 5.1 miles / 9 minutes - 12:13 pm
2:13 pm - 35.2 miles / 44 minutes - 2:58 pm
music every Saturday night
3:58 pm - 29.0 miles / 48 minutes - 4:47 pm
Day 4