BirdTrout
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
195,720 acres of public ground in Page, Rockingham, Madison, Rappahannock counties, managed by National Park Service. 108 named streams run through it, of which 70 are designated trout water — 259.1 miles of it.
Open in BirdTrout50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. The colour is Virginia DWR's own classification of the stream, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water Virginia DWR has not typed.
The unit in numbers
Assembled from PAD-US ownership records, dissolved into one block: the section lines a state forest is surveyed in are not a fact about access, so they are not drawn and not counted twice.
Getting on it
Open to the public without a permit, as PAD-US records it. State licence and season rules still apply.
This unit is 4 separate blocks of ground rather than one, which is normal for public land held in surveyed sections: the blocks are not contiguous. The map above draws every one of them, and the ground between two of them belongs to somebody else. Boundaries, closures and anything posted on the ground are National Park Service's to say.
Trout streams on this ground
Every named stream whose reaches touch this unit, longest first. 57 of them have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is Virginia DWR's designation of that stream, over the reaches it has classified. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.
| Stream | Miles | Class | Now | Designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawksbill Creek | 30.2 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Dry Run | 27.8 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Rapidan River | 25.7 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Stony Run | 22.4 | untyped | — | Class II, Class III |
| Big Run | 18.5 | untyped | — | Class II, Class IV |
| Swift Run | 17.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Hazel River | 16.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Hughes River | 14.6 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Conway River | 14.4 | untyped | — | — |
| South River | 13.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Thornton River | 13.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Jordan River | 12.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Rush River | 12.5 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Jeremys Run | 11.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Roach River | 11.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Gooney Run | 10.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Robinson River | 10.2 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Doyles River | 10.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Pass Run | 9.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| East Hawksbill Creek | 9.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| North Fork Thornton River | 9.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Rose River | 8.8 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Piney River | 8.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Flint Run | 7.5 | untyped | — | Class VI |
| Madison Run | 7.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Meadow Run | 7.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Deep Run | 6.8 | untyped | — | — |
| North Fork Moormans River | 6.8 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Paine Run | 6.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| West Branch Naked Creek | 6.6 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Popham Run | 6.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Indian Run | 6.2 | untyped | — | Class III |
| East Branch Naked Creek | 6.1 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Gap Run | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Miller Run | 6.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Wolf Run | 5.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Broad Run | 5.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Sawmill Run | 5.6 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Onemile Run | 5.4 | untyped | — | Class I |
| South Branch Naked Creek | 5.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Greasy Run | 5.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Fultz Run | 5.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Stull Run | 5.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Twomile Run | 5.0 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Keyser Run | 4.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Hawksbill Creek | 4.9 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Overall Run | 4.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Rocky Run | 4.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Mine Branch | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| West Swift Run | 4.4 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Moody Creek | 4.3 | untyped | — | — |
| South Fork Moormans River | 4.3 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Ivy Creek | 4.2 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Rocky Branch | 4.2 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Staunton River | 4.1 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Beaverdam Creek | 4.0 | untyped | — | — |
| East Fork Dry Run | 4.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Lands Run | 4.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| North Fork Dry Run | 4.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| South Fork Dry Run | 4.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Lower Lewis Run | 3.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Racer Run | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Brokenback Run | 3.7 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Steele Run | 3.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Kinsey Run | 3.1 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Upper Lewis Run | 3.1 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Bolton Branch | 3.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Lee Run | 3.0 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Ragged Run | 3.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Pocosin Creek | 2.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Devils Ditch | 2.8 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Big Creek | 2.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Entry Run | 2.7 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Tunnel Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Walls Run | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Collects Run | 2.5 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Hannah Run | 2.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Cedar Run | 2.3 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Hangman Run | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Butterwood Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Jones Run | 2.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Rocky Mountain Run | 2.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Sprucepine Branch | 2.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Whiteoak Run | 2.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Hogcamp Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Phils Arm Run | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Waterfall Branch | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Mill Prong | 1.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Mine Run | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Runyons Run | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Tims River | 1.8 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Bearwallow Run | 1.6 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Big Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Bush Mountain Stream | 1.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Pond Ridge Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Sams Run | 1.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Flatgut Run | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Creek | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Wilson Run | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Big Ugly Run | 1.1 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Laurel Prong | 1.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Shop Run | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Turk Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Gum Spring Branch | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Gate Branch | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Aarons Branch | 0.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Garth Spring Run | 0.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Raven Cliff Branch | 0.5 | untyped | — | — |
The miles are the whole stream's, not the miles inside this boundary: a river does not stop at a property line and neither does its page.
Hunting
This unit is not in the huntable public-land layer this app paints, so this page does not publish seasons for it. That is not the same as "hunting is closed here" — it means the layer the app draws from does not carry this ground, and the managing agency is the one to ask.
Access sites and amenities
No public access site we have on record stands on this unit. We hold no trail or campground data at all, so what is here is what the state publishes as launches and walk-in access, and none of it falls on this ground.
When to come
The hatch calendar for the Virginia mountains, which is the region this unit's centre falls in — the same regions the app's hatch panel uses. It is a regional record, not a survey of this ground: nobody has counted insects unit by unit. Year-round records (midges, scuds, sculpins) are left out.
January
May
- Blue-Winged Olive
- Blackfly
- Blue Quill
- Cranefly
- +18 more
June
July
- Caterpillar
- Crayfish
- Green Sedge
- Light Cahill
- +18 more
August
September
October
November
December
Nothing seasonal on the water.
Regulations
Nothing on this page is a regulation. The fishing rules that apply to the water on this ground — the types, the seasons, the size limits and the gear restrictions — are on the Virginia fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns.
Watersheds it lies in
The subbasins this ground drains into. Each one has the whole basin's water on it.
Public land nearby
The nearest other blocks of public ground, centre to centre. Public land does not tile a state the way watersheds do, so this is nearness rather than adjacency.
- Rapidan Wildlife Management Area 4.3 mi
- Shenandoah Wilderness Area 11.7 mi
- First Mountain State Forest 12.8 mi
- Deep Run Ponds State Natural Area Preserve 22.2 mi
Plan a weekend around it
The trip pages whose range reaches this ground — the water in the same drive, what is hatching, and a three-day plan built from it.