Meadow Spring Cabin - Shenandoah National Park - Lonely Chimneys on Waymarking.com

The ruins of the Meadow Spring Shelter are located on the Meadow Spring Trail about ½ mile from Skyline Drive in Shenandoah NP.

The original cabin was built by mountaineer Perry Sisk in 1930 for members of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, who used it as a base camp while laying out trails in the area. It was torn down in 1939, and a larger cabin was built by the Park Service. The new cabin burned down to the ground on Thanksgiving Day, 1946, leaving the stone foundation and chimney. The hikers who had the cabin claimed to have left it, with all fires out, just ten minutes before a column of smoke was spotted from a lookout tower.

The Meadow Spring is right below the ruins and approximately .3 miles NW of the cabin is a junction with the Appalachian Trail.

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