Cat Knob is a 3,680-foot-high mountain summit in Shenandoah National Park, south of Big Meadows. The summit can be reached with a 4-mile hike once you get off the Skyline Drive. The trail to the summit runs along the side of a mountain, offering beautiful views all the way. This is one of the hikes offering the highest elevation gain, so it presents a nice challenge. It is possible to climb it all year around. While the colors are spectacular in the fall, the undergrowth is thick and impedes progress. There is also poison ivy as well as snakes. Winter is great time to hike if there is not too much snow.

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