The Powell River Trail is one of the newest rail-trails in the commonwealth of Virginia. Running south 2.4 miles from the town of Appalachia through the “big stone gap” toward the town of the same name, it’s a very pleasant walk any time of the year.
It’s said, though, that if you happen to be on the trail late at night near the first tunnel you encounter, you just might hear the shrill voice of someone off in the distance calling for help. That, folks, is the call of something that’s part human, part beast and named for that tunnel you just walked through – the Bee Rock Troll.
In the next week or so we’ll have a video and a podcast telling the story of the Bee Rock Tunnel and the Bee Rock Troll…another bit of the folklore of this place we call home…