This is where you can find websites, helpful phone numbers, friends groups and cooperating associations, and, sometimes, books related to the park.
Shenandoah National Park: www.nps.gov/shen
Shenandoah National Park
3655 U.S. Highway 211 East
Luray, VA 22835
Visitor Information 540 999-3500
Emergency Phone: 800-732-0911
Lodging Concessionaire: DNC Parks & Resorts At Shenandoah.
877-847-1919 (Domestic)
801-559-5070 (International)
For information about bringing pets, click here.
Fees
Standard Park Pass:
- Seven-day vehicle access: $25
- Seven-day motorcycle access: $20
- Seven-day per person access (pedestrians and bicyclists): $15
Shenandoah National Park Annual Pass: $45
American the Beautiful Annual Pass (including Senior Passes): FREE - $80
Organizations And Businesses
- Education/Academic Group: FREE
- Commercial Sedan (1-6 seats): $25 + $10 per passenger
- Commercial Van (7-15 seats): $75
- Commercial Mini-Bus (16-25 seats): $100
- Commercial Motor Coach (26+ seats): $200
- Non-Commercial Group (16+ persons): $15
Friends Groups and Cooperating Associations
The Shenandoah National Park Trust helps protect and enhance Shenandoah National Park for current visitors and future generations. The Trust is the official non-profit fundraising partner for Shenandoah National Park. It works with the park superintendent and her staff to identify priority projects that government funding will not cover.
The Shenandoah National Park Association supports the interpretive and educational activities of Shenandoah National Park. The support comes from the sales of books, maps, videos, and other items about Shenandoah National Park and the National Park Service.
The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club is a volunteer-based organization headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. The PATC was founded in 1927 by the visionaries who planned and built the Appalachian Trail. The club now manages more than 1,200 miles of hiking trails in the Mid-Atlantic region, along with cabins, shelters, and hundreds of acres of conserved land.
Helpful Books
Becoming Odyssa, Epic Adventures On the Appalachian Trail
From Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail rambles for 2,175 miles, a journey alluring to some for its back-to-nature demands on those who set out to hike end-to-end. But this simple footpath opens windows into yourself, and others, as Jennifer Pharr Davis found out during a solo thru-hike.
The Complete Guide To The National Park Lodges
David and Kay Scott are still traveling the country to stay in as many lodges in the National Park System as possible.
Note: the latest edition of their book was published in 2017.
Shenandoah: A Story Of Conservation And Betrayal
Sue Eisenfeld opens a window into the lives of some of those mountain folk in Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal. This 162-page narrative (with another 31 pages of acknowledgements, notes, and bibliography) follows Eisenfeld and her husband, Neil, as they seek out old homesteads and family cemeteries that have been grown over by the returning woodlands.
Guide to Shenandoah National Park And Skyline Drive
This title started out as a printed edition by Henry Heatwole. It went through four editions, the last in 1988, and several reprintings, with corrections, the last in 1999. While you might be able to find a used copy somewhere, there's an online version you can turn to that has been updated. Created by the Shenandoah National Park Association with help from the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, the park staff, and Tony Heatwole, this guide offers details on hikes through the park, information on vegetation and wildlife, seasonal conditions, lodging, campgrounds, and even geology.
The Undying Past Of Shenandoah National Park
Darwin Lambert's book, last published in 2001 and available through the Shenandoah National Park Association, is a well-researched and written history of how the park came to be. With chapters on Paleoindians, fur traders, early British settlers, miners, and more, Lambert also gives good coverage to those who lived in these mountains long before the park came about in 1935.
