cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (04/11/89)
I just travelled down the Skyline Drive in Virginia, from Front Royal to Waynesboro, and have the following data regarding phones along it (notice several phone prefixes not in use outside the park?): Public phones available along it (mileposts southbound from Front Royal): Dickey Ridge Visitor Center, 4.6; use Front Royal exchange, 635 or 636 in 703 area Mathews Arm Campground, 22.3 Elkwallow Wayside, 24.1; use 703-420, on phone bill as Elkwallow Panorama Restaurant, 31.5; use 703-421, on phone bill as Panorama Skyland Lodge, 41.7; use 703-422 Byrd Visitor Center, 51; apparently use 703-423, on phone bill as Big Meadows (see the pattern forming with use of 42x? comments?) Lewis Mountain Campground, 57.6; apparently use 703-424 Swift Run Entrance, 65 Loft Mountain Wayside, 79.7; I saw pay phone on 804-823 Crozet, the name of a town which is RATHER far away. Also, 703-999 is used for official phone numbers in this park; it appears on phone bill as Shenandoah Park.