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Hemlock Overlook Regional Park

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2017 08 19 11 35 12 View up into the canopy of a grove of Eastern Hemlocks along the Bull Run Occoquan Trail between the Yellow Trail and the Red Trail within Hemlock Overlook Regional Park, in southwestern Fairfax County, Virginia
2017 08 19 11 35 12 View up into the canopy of a grove of Eastern Hemlocks along the Bull Run Occoquan Trail between the Yellow Trail and the Red Trail within Hemlock Overlook Regional Park, in southwestern Fairfax County, Virginia

Hemlock Overlook Regional Park is a multi-use park near Clifton, Virginia, one of several parks lining the Bull Run. The 400-acre park offers dense forests, hilly woodlands, and floodplain scenery. Hemlock Overlook is named after the grove of hemlock trees above the banks in the northern section of the park. At the northern edge of the park is the site of the Union Mills and the bridge crossing for the Orange and Alexandria Railroad over the Bull Run; both of these sites have high significance in the Battles of Bull Run. The site of a dam that supported the first hydroelectric power generation to Fairfax County is also on the Hemlock Overlook site. A permanent orienteering course, built with the support of the Quantico Orienteering Club, sits in the southern end of the park, south of Yates Ford Road. The Bull Run-Occoquan Trail (blue trail) is maintained by the PATC. From 1984 to 2009, Hemlock Overlook operated as a university outdoor education center, through a partnership between George Mason University and the Park Authority. In 2009, the Park Authority engaged a partner, Adventure Links, to operate the facility. In 2021, the Park Authority put out a Request for Proposal for new operating partners. A new operator, Horizons at Hemlock Overlook, part of Endless Horizons, has been chosen to partner with the Park Authority.

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2017 08 19 11 35 12 View up into the canopy of a grove of Eastern Hemlocks along the Bull Run Occoquan Trail between the Yellow Trail and the Red Trail within Hemlock Overlook Regional Park, in southwestern Fairfax County, Virginia
2017 08 19 11 35 12 View up into the canopy of a grove of Eastern Hemlocks along the Bull Run Occoquan Trail between the Yellow Trail and the Red Trail within Hemlock Overlook Regional Park, in southwestern Fairfax County, Virginia
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Clifton, Virginia
Clifton, Virginia

Clifton is an incorporated town located in southwestern Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 282 at the time of the 2010 census, up from 185 at the 2000 census. Incorporated by the General Assembly on March 9, 1902, Clifton is one of only three towns in the county, the other two being the much more populous Vienna and Herndon. Clifton's history begins pre-colonially, when the area was used as hunting grounds by the local Dogue Native American tribe. A railroad siding was constructed here during the Civil War, and the area became titled as Devereux Station. A nearby neighborhood on the outskirts of the Clifton ZIP code has this name. Development of a village at the siding began in 1868 when a railroad depot, named "Clifton Station", was constructed. Unlike most areas in Northern Virginia, the land around Clifton is far less built up than nearby areas, especially to its east and southwest. This was out of the worry that overdevelopment near Bull Run and the Occoquan River would be environmentally damaging to the Occoquan Reservoir. Consequently, as development edged near the area in the late 1970s and early 1980s, an ordinance was enacted stating that only one building could be placed on 5-acre (2.0 ha) parcels that have not already been divided. Today, the southern and eastern portions of the area are heavily forested, with single-family homes, while the northern area has become equestrian areas.