We tackled Poor Mountain on a brisk Friday morning with essentially no one else around. This was, by far, my favorite hike of the 3 we’ve hit thus far. We met one other person along the trail and heard a family somewhere off in the distance but given the tight and twisty nature of this […]

Read Mountain is located in the Roanoke River Valley just a little north of the city of Roanoke. The 1.9 mile hike to the top gives the hiker some great views of the Roanoke Valley and surrounding area from a lookout point named Buzzard’s Rocks. From this point you can see the northeast portion of […]

Roanoke bills itself as the “Only City with a Mountain Within Its Limits” so it makes sense to start the Seven Summits of Roanoke program by hiking up Mill Mountain. Mill Mountain is completely within the city limits of the Roanoke and is home to the Roanoke Star, Mill Mountain Zoo, and Mill Mountain Park.  […]