On the way back up from the VGFC this weekend, we briefly detoured off the interstate (81) to go up Route 11, and across a singular natural feature in Virginia: Natural Bridge. This is a span of limestone going over a creek (and because it spans a watercourse, it is thus not an arch, but a bridge).

Unfortunately, this is all we saw of it:


The bridge is privately owned, and it's fenced off from view from Route 11, in spite of the fact that the road actually goes over the bridge. So we drove across it, but we couldn't really tell. And we didn't feel like stopping and paying the $$ to get in to see it from underneath.

In spite of that disappointment, what's pretty cool about the area is that it shows up well in this Google Maps "terrain" view:


Kind of wild: a natural bridge that's actually used as a bridge...

Labels: caves, limestone, valley and ridge, virginia