Name: Riverbend and Reservoir Trail
Start: 2024-11-17T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-17T15:30:00-05:00

There is a 5.00 dollar fee to get into Seven Bends State Park. Anyone wants to carpool from Charlestown, Martinsburg, and Hagerstown area. please plan to meet at Lowes right off interstate 81 and rt 45 heading east from 81 about 1/4 mile on left .Meet at garden center. Please bring hiking poles and good shoes layers of clothing. Food and water will be good to bring. The hike will be 8 miles . This hike will be moderate to difficult due to steepness on certain parts on this hike.
[Google map directions](https://maps.app.goo.gl/xu89hxuqVfnEK31i9)
[Alltrails about this hike](https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/virginia/riverbend-rise-and-reservoir-trails?u=i&sh=vaw30a)
This trail begins at the Lupton Road entrance where there are ample parking and public restrooms. It starts with the Eagles Edge trail and ends with the Gokatta trail, which are leisurely strolls along the river and are very easy – a nice way to start and to end what is otherwise a more strenuous track. The hiking begins when you enter the River Bend Rise Trail which is aptly named as it is a continuous ascent for the first mile or so, gaining about 600 feet of elevation in that span with grades mostly in the 10-25% range. This portion of the hike is the reason for the rating of difficult. The trail is wide and in good shape though, with nice views below to the river and across the valley.
Once you round the bend and take the sharp turn to the right, the hike mostly goes cross mountain with less than 100 feet of elevation change. It is well marked and in good shape with good footing. About a half mile after the bend, the track meets the junction of Pawpaw Hollow and Reservoir Trails. You will continue along reservoir, passing both of the reservoirs for which the trail is named, until the junction of the Talus and Stonecrop trails which is 4 miles into the hike.
With the other trails available, you can lengthen it and add more grades – Pawpaw Hollow, Stonecrop Ridge and Talus trail all branch off of Reservoir and go up and down the ridge at various places. Or there is another ¾ of a mile left of Reservoir from this track’s endpoint if looking to continue the moderate hike along the ridge. So this is a very flexible park with varying ranges of difficulty available once you make the ascent up River Bend Rise. All along, there are glimpses of views across the Shenandoah Valley, especially in the fall when the leaves are falling from the trees.

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