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Shenandoah National Park Crowdsources "Then And Now" Photo Gallery

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 23rd, 2018
The Appalachian Trail as it passes Blackrock Summit in Shenandoah National Park/NPS and Ben Nelson

The Appalachian Trail as it passes Blackrock Summit in Shenandoah National Park/NPS and Ben Nelson (2016)

Back in 2016, for the centennial of the National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park staff chose about 50 historic photos from the park's archives and recruited volunteer photographers to re-create each photo. Most of the historic photos date to the 1930s, so the 2016 photos document about 75 years of change in the landscape. The resulting photo gallery is amazing, and incredible.

It's amazing on a number of fronts, ranging from the effort today's photographers went to so they could duplicate the settings in the historic photographs to the relative lack of change in the landscapes. Oh, there are some changes, such as taller trees at the Loft Mountain Campground today than there were in years past, and around the Simmons Gap Mission, now a ranger station.

But the Appalachian Trail near Blackrock looks unchanged from the 1934 photo to the 2016 shot. Whiteoak Cabin seems little changed, aside from taller vegetation, from 1935 to 2016.

You can find the gallery with the "then and now" photos at this site.

Whiteoak Cabin in Shenandoah National Park in 1935 and 2016/NPS, George Knox and Kathy Haines

Whiteoak Cabin in Shenandoah National Park in 1935 and 2016/NPS, George Knox and Kathy Haines (2016)



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