Pretty sure they did dump Table Mesa off the BoH list. If you are ever near Peter's Mill again for whatever reason, go to the "Southern Kitchen" in New Market. It has been around since 1955. Great Sounthern classics.
Table Mesa has trails like this around it
Table Mesa has trails like this around it
Where as Peters Mill Run is like this.
It is one thing to be a crappy trail surrounded by thousands of miles of trails vs a crappy trail with a couple other trails around it. With that said, this is one of the reasons I point my Jeep west to go wheeling instead of east.
My favorite campsites are just off US-33 and I was down there for some campfire therapy last week. Wish I'd known about it!
If you go in the future, their fried chicken, country ham, and stewed tomatoes are great.
Had me at Fried Chicken. Up where I am, it's near impossible to find nowadays outside of diners, and even the best ones don't really do it right. Everybody today wants hot/spicy "burn-your-mouth" style, rather than classic savory southern fried style.
Do you have Royal Farms near your part of NJ? They are based out of Maryland. It's a combination gas station, convenience store, and fried chicken place. Pretty dang good fried chicken. Some people see it and think it must be "gas station chicken". It actually started as a chicken farm, so it's historically a chicken place that now sells gas and convenience items. Worth a try.
Daniel is way more difficult because the front side can do major body damage...20 years ago stock Isuzu's ran all over ure.
Daniel is way more difficult because the front side can do major body damage...20 years ago stock Isuzu's ran all over ure.
Dickey bell "proper" was impassable for us on 35 and 37s aired down.
It was damp and the bowl of rocks was like skating in a metal bowl with blocks of ice.
We had to take the bypass. Next day a ton truck broke front end or? Was jacked up in the bowl...bypass again.
Below top of Daniel...25th anniversary picture. In 2000 it was Isuzu's in the picture.
Old friend as I helped winch him back over on the Dickey Bell bypass in October 25?
The next. is a picture from one of the easiest trails.
We winched him off...
The stories after 25 years of wheeling there.
No Royal Farms near us unfortunately. But some of the best fried bird parts I ever had was right after running Big Levels (Bald Mountain Jeep Trail). It was a gas station that also had barbecue as well as chicken. I can't find the route I took after I did the trail, but I'm pretty sure the gas station was somewhere near the town of Vesuvius, a bit before getting on 81 North. Amazing.
We used to live in VA. Gas stations out in the Shenandoah Valley region were notorious for their good fried chicken. Several of them started out as general stores / mercantiles that had a diner counter. Several added the gas sales in more recent decades.
