After leaving the Byrd Visitor Center, we headed to Lewis Mountain Campground, where we had the cabin for the night. The sky was beautiful along the outlooks.
We spotted the first buck next to our cabin, right after we checked in. He had pretty nice size antlers. The deer in the park are too accustomed to seeing humans. He just walked around looking for his food, and did not mind us at all.
We stayed in cabin #1 and #2. My husband booked a double-unit cabin in case my mom could come with. It was a little too big for just the two of us, but it was nice. There was a double bed in each of the unit (bedroom), with a private bathroom with toilet, sink, and shower in between the two units. The bedrooms had dressers, night stands, lamps, clothes hangers, chairs, sheets, pillows, and blankets. The bathroom had toilet paper, tissues, clean towels, hand soap, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and lotions. We could have saved a lot of cargo space if we had known they had all these amenities. This cabin was the first one in the row, so we only had neighbors on one side. We enjoyed a lot more trees and a few more deer.
We decided to hike a little bit before the sun went down. So we started on the tiny trail behind the campground. It was not an official trail, but it led to the Appalachian Trail at one point.
I noticed many fallen branches along the trail. It kind of made me feel sad. In this particular case, the fallen branch was leaning against a live tree, and the live tree was tilted from the pressure. I hope it would be able to hold up.
But once in a while, I would also see these twisted trees. It seemed that they were dancing, with a slightly goofy and merry look.
We stopped for a second to admire the mountains at an overlook.
Of course, there had to be something that ruined the view - a cigarette butt and candy wrappers.
It was getting dark and we were getting hungry, so we turned around and hiked back to our cabin.
To be continued...
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