Our son & his family recently moved quite close to Ragged Mountain & so we popped over here for a quick winter hike with their toddler sons. Fortunately, snow on the trails wasn’t too deep to make it TOO difficult. Nice hiking especially around the reservoir, trails are maintained well enough even in mid-winter, nice views especially as it was nearing sunset, easy enough for our outdoor-loving grandsons who also got a kick out of the carved wooden bears along the trail. Know that, even though signs say no dogs, people, nevertheless, do walk with their dogs out here.

The views were beautiful and it was nice and refreshing! Went about 6 miles in total. Saw some snakes, lot's of birds, and more!

enjoyable hike, very clean, not a lot of steep hills, Not much parking. warn path easy to follow, watch for hidden stumps on the trail, they will trip you up.

A lovely hike to do on a 90+ deg summer day with friends. Just a short drive from Charlottesville, a moderate hike around the water body under the canopy of trees. A map is posted at the parking lot but the trail itself is not well marked. Be sure to download the trail map on the alltrails app. Interesting flora and fauna - not too crowded. The hike is pretty flat with interesting points of interest marked by wood carvings - owl point, bear point and mountain man. Plan to go back in the fall to see the leaves change colors.

Did the full lake view trail of 6.6 miles this weekend .. some parts are moderately difficult the others are fairly easy Major drawback is the lack of markings on this trail.. not busy at all on Saturday midday and the exhilaration at the end of the trail was worth the suffering .. view of water thru the hike is beautiful and the floating bridge is breathtaking ..