Craggy Gardens, a popular area on the Blue Ridge Parkway, is interlaced with great trails that take hikers through the rhododendrons and grassy open gaps, as well as surrounding forests along the Mountains to the Sea trail and other trails.

A roadside meadow by the trailhead glowed with
Rudbeckia,
Coreopsis and
Phlox, with slopes nearby puctuated with
Silene virginica and
Campanulastrum americana (formerly
Campanula).
Woody enjoyed the cooler temperatures at higher elevations, as well as his first hike in the woods!