Rockfish Gap is a wind gap located in the Blue Ridge Mountains between Charlottesville and Waynesboro, Virginia, United States, through Afton Mountain, which is frequently used to refer to the gap.
Joining the Shenandoah Valley to the Piedmont region of the state, it is the site of the mountain crossing of Interstate 64, U.S. Route 250, and the former Blue Ridge Railroad which later became part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and is currently part of the CSX line. With an elevation of about 1,900 feet (580 m), it is one of the lowest gaps between Manassas Gap and the James River. Rockfish Gap lies along a drainage divide between southeast-flowing streams that drain to the James River and northwest-flowing streams in the Shenandoah River system.
The scenic Skyline Drive, which runs north through Shenandoah National Park to Front Royal, and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs south to a point near Cherokee, North Carolina, each generally following the mountain ridgetops, meet a short distance north of Rockfish Gap (such that the roadway on the bridge over the gap is actually part of the Blue Ridge Parkway). The Appalachian Trail also passes through the gap.
^"Rockfish Gap". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
RockfishGap is a wind gap located in the Blue Ridge Mountains between Charlottesville and Waynesboro, Virginia, United States, through Afton Mountain...
(I-64) in RockfishGap, where the road continues south as the Blue Ridge Parkway. The road has intermediate interchanges with US 211 in Thornton Gap and US 33...
tunnels engineered by Claudius Crozet to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains at RockfishGap in central Virginia. At 4,237 feet (1,291 m) in length, the tunnel was...
terminus of Shenandoah National Park's Skyline Drive in Virginia at RockfishGap to U.S. Route 441 (US 441) at Oconaluftee in the Great Smoky Mountains...
under construction Blue Ridge Railroad via a temporary track built over RockfishGap. This connected the railroad's eastern division with its expanding line...
with U.S. Route 60 (US 60). Also noteworthy is a section through RockfishGap, a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which was equipped with an innovative...
crosses via a winding route at Brent Gap. SR 151 descends to the village of Wintergreen at the head of the Rockfish Valley. At SR 664 (Beech Grove Road)...
Parkway 469.1 754.9 US 441 in Swain County, NC US 250/Skyline Drive in RockfishGap, VA June 30, 1936 America's longest linear park; runs mostly along the...
McCormick Gap is a wind gap located in the Blue Ridge Mountains east of RockfishGap. "McCormick Gap". Geographic Names Information System. United States...
Visitors Center is located at mile marker 5.8, six miles south of the RockfishGap Interchange of I-64 and US 250. It is most easily accessed by either...
Virginia Board of Public Works, determined that a system of tunnels at RockfishGap, about 30 miles (48 km) to the south, would be more feasible. Despite...
Byway from SR 151 at Avon to SR 650 near Manakin. SR 6 begins at US 250 (RockfishGap Turnpike) on the slope of Afton Mountain, the local name for this section...
Front Royal and the northern terminus with the Blue Ridge Parkway at RockfishGap. The Skyline Drive generally following the mountain ridge tops through...
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Central Railroad begins operations through the Blue Ridge Tunnel at RockfishGap, Virginia. May – First known slip coach working, at Haywards Heath on...
of East Lexington US 11 in Greenville US 340 in Waynesboro US 250 in RockfishGap US 250 in Yancey Mills US 29 west-southwest of Charlottesville US 250...
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24 other dignitaries at a meeting held in the Mountain Top Tavern at RockfishGap. After some deliberation, they selected nearby Charlottesville as the...
western Albemarle County. SR 240 begins at an intersection with US 250 (RockfishGap Turnpike) in Brownsville. The state highway heads north as two-lane undivided...
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