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Review:
The Dismal Swamp Canal Trail is an outdoor recreation, environmental, and historic park area with picnic areas, as well as multi-use trail that is open to horseback riding, hiking, running, walking, bicycling, and even boating. The north trailhead can be found at Old Route 17 and Dominion Boulevard in Chesapeake, Virginia and runs a little more than eight miles to the south along the Dismal Swamp Canal. This canal is also the site of the Paddle for the Border event in the spring, during which paddlers of all ages travel from the state of Maryland down to Georgia.
1200 Dismal Swamp Canal Trail, Chesapeake, VA 23322, Phone: 757-382-6411
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