WAYNESBORO, Va. (WVIR) – A pair in Waynesboro has earned their grasp hiker standing. That means they hiked each state park in Virginia.

It solely took them a 12 months.

“Virginia is so diverse in all types of ways – the people, the atmosphere, the landscape,” Sam Bosserman stated.

She and her husband David would know.

“You get a pin for every one, five, 10, 20 parks you visited. Then when you visit all of them you earn your master hiker pin,” Sam acknowledged.

The pair spent 2021 visiting Virginia’s state parks with their 85-pound pit, Olive, alongside for the experience.

“I was excited to see different parts of the state that I hadn’t been to,” Sam stated.

The problem took them to each nook and fringe of the commonwealth on a bunch of day journeys and 4 in a single day journeys the place they stayed contained in the parks.

“Had to take a picture of the trailhead. Had to take a selfie on the trail,” Sam stated.

They hiked a trial in every, visited the native eating places, and took within the native space. Their greatest enterprise was southwest Virginia.

“We did nine parks in four days for that trip,” Sam stated.

That’s the place she found considered one of her favourite parks: Grayson Highlands.

“It’s actually the highest elevated state park in the state and it has wild ponies,” she stated.

Another favourite of Sam’s was Westmoreland.

“They have cliffs. They have a fossil beach where you can hunt for sharks teeth,” Sam acknowledged.

David loved High Bridge.

“High Bridge was an old railroad track they converted to a walking/biking path,” David stated.

He additionally preferred Natural Tunnel which has a prepare observe working via it.

“We were lucky enough, we had gone down, looked at it, got about halfway back up heard a train whistle,” David stated. “So I ran back down got some pictures and everything, watched the train come through it.”

When requested the place David would wish to revisit, he simply laughed. He’s a little bit burnt out after 40 parks in a 12 months, however Sam is already occupied with Holliday Lake.

“We were just there for probably an hour, but that’s one I’d like to go back to,” she stated.

But they agree it was price it.

“Get a pass, go out, you know you’ll never know what you’ll see,” David stated.

While the Bossermans tackled Virginia’s state parks in a 12 months, you don’t should. The State Park Service program Trail Quest permits you to observe your journey at your individual tempo, incomes some free pins alongside the way in which.

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