The Town of Strasburg maintains the Town Park located along at Park Road at the east end of Queen Street. The park includes a large playground, tennis courts, basketball courts, baseball, softball, and soccer fields, a swimming pool, and a number of picnic and pavilion areas, as well as access to the Riverwalk and the Shenandoah River. The trail connects the park with Strasburg High School on Ram Drive.
Riverwalk
Begin your walk along the Strasburg Riverwalk at the Strasburg Town Park. The gravel walkway, located along the Shenandoah River, offers beautiful views of the river and the face of the Massanutten Mountain Range called Signal Knob. The .9 mile walk ends at Strasburg High School (Ram Drive) and three benches and three doggie clean-up stations are located along the walk.
River Access
The North Fork of the Shenandoah River is easily accessed at the Strasburg Town Park. A boat landing and gravel parking lot are available for people wanting to float the river on kayaks, tubes, or canoes, and very shallow drafting aluminum boats. This is a great area to float to from the Deer Rapids access point, approximately five miles upstream. If floating downstream, please be cautious of a dangerous dam about five miles from the Strasburg Town Park. For your convenience, port-a-potties are available at the parking lot."
Town Park | Town of Strasburg Virginia
unfortunately,
- user safety is a concern: MINDS OF MUSH: guns in the town of strasburg, shenandoah county, va: target practice at night & a man firing a shotgun from a boat in the shenandoah river next to town park
- user security is a concern:
- trees, bushes, etc. obscure sight lines
- bears
- unleashed dogs *
- potential assaults, robberies, etc.
- no video surveillance
- in more than two years, walking riverwalk almost daily, I've never observed presence of law enforcement on the trail
- dog waste--while signs are posted advising dog owners to leash their dogs and to bag and properly dispose of dog waste, since these laws/rules aren't enforced, unleashed dogs threaten trail users and dog waste litters the trail and adjacent areas
* this is a warning to all those dog owners who ignore the posted signs that say that your dog must be on a leash. if you fail to control your dog and it attacks me, then I will do whatever it takes to keep your dog from attacking me--whatever it takes. consider yourself warned.
unfortunately, failure to address user safety and security concerns, lack of enforcement of laws/rules and lack of maintenance have made a liability out of what should be an asset--not to mention diminishing the experience for those who use riverwalk.
while this photo shows the south fork of the shenandoah river,
it is typical of the north fork at riverwalk, town park, stasburg, va
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