The view at Little Calf Mountain is outstanding, as is the easy 1 mile
hike to it. There is ample parking at the Beagle Gap parking area in-between
mile posts 99 and 100. There is no view at the Calf Mountain Summit but there
is a disc inset marker just south of a large rock pile marking the summit. The
distance from the parking to the rock pile is 1.8 miles. I thought the shelter
was a lot closer (it is as the crow flies and how my GPS indicated) but the
trail circles far North before the side trail cuts back to the shelter. It is a
full 2.7 miles to the shelter from Beagle Gap. The spring appeared to be
working well. The approach to the shelter and the trail North of the Calf
Mountain Summit skirts private property and some interesting hunting dwellings
/ structures. There were cars present at some of them. At one point on the
trail there was a large sign indicating the property was up for sale. The
shelter was only a couple tenths of a mile from the park boundary and the
shelter showed signs of poor maintenance and maybe homeless activity. Given it
was the cold of winter and I was hiking alone, I chose to hike back to the
parking and end my journey for the day.
Hike starts at 2:13
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