Vestals Gap Overlook Park

Beautiful park

This is what Loudoun County has been doing recently. They bulldoze hundreds of trees to put up hideous-beyond-belief data centres and high five, hug, cheer, and pat themselves on the backs for the creation of a park that might not even be two acres. This has two small interpretive signs which are alright, but essentially direct you to the nearby Claude Moore Park, which was once slated for development as well. It does save a tiny portion of the historic Vestal’s Gap Road, but other than that the trees are not even that old even though the sign says the biggest were around when Col. John Mosby was. I’m not even sure if it’s worth a visit, I found a tick on my leg last time I stopped by here, two years after my last time. There’s no sign for it off Atlantic Blvd, instead I accidentally stumbled across it a few years ago, and you can’t even see Vestal’s Gap from this joke of a park. The trails ends in a cul-de-sac of gravel and leads to a hill overlooking the beautiful Sully Road. Loudoun needs to preserve more parkland before we all lose touch with nature and we have a Woburn, Massachusetts situation in our hands.

To call this a park is an overstatement. I found a geocache across the street (See geocaching.com!), so I came over for a walk. This "park" is a mulched path about a block long. I did see a herd of deer and read the historical markers. The first one contains a typo. Really, Loudoun County?

Went looking for the trail that snakes around by route 7 and only found this “trail” that says it used to go to the toll house but now ends a quarter mile away in a clearing next to 28. Disappointed.