BirdTrout
Shenandoah Wilderness Area, Virginia
82,307 acres of public ground in Rockingham, Rappahannock, Madison, Page counties, managed by National Park Service. 53 named streams run through it, of which 35 are designated trout water — 151.5 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
Entry is limited — a permit, a season or a posted restriction applies. Check with the managing agency before you go.
This unit is 11 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. 26 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 |
| Big Run | 18.5 | untyped | — | Class II, Class IV |
| Hazel River | 16.3 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Hughes River | 14.6 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Jordan River | 12.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Jeremys Run | 11.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Robinson River | 10.2 | untyped | — | Class I |
| 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 | — | — |
| Paine Run | 6.7 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Gap Run | 6.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Miller Run | 6.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Sawmill Run | 5.6 | untyped | — | Class IV |
| Onemile Run | 5.4 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Stull Run | 5.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Twomile Run | 5.0 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Overall Run | 4.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Rocky Run | 4.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Mine Branch | 4.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Moody Creek | 4.3 | untyped | — | — |
| South Fork Moormans River | 4.3 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Beaverdam Creek | 4.0 | untyped | — | — |
| East Fork Dry Run | 4.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Lower Lewis Run | 3.9 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Brokenback Run | 3.7 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Upper Lewis Run | 3.1 | untyped | — | Class III |
| Ragged Run | 3.0 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Tunnel Branch | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Walls Run | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Hannah Run | 2.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Cedar Run | 2.3 | untyped | — | Class I |
| Hangman Run | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Butterwood Branch | 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 |
| 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 |
| Pond Ridge Branch | 1.5 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Sams Run | 1.4 | untyped | — | Class II |
| Shop Run | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Turk Branch | 1.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Gate Branch | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Aarons Branch | 0.8 | 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.
- Shenandoah National Park 1.6 mi
- Rapidan Wildlife Management Area 4.7 mi
- First Mountain State Forest 12.0 mi
- Deep Run Ponds State Natural Area Preserve 21.5 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.