Hemlock Overlook Regional Park is a small multi-use park near Clifton, Virginia which also doubles as an Outdoor Education Center operated by Adventure Links. The facility offers a popular rope course for schools and other groups, focusing on team development. The rest of the park offers hilly woodlands and floodplain scenery and is a good place for hiking, horse riding and canoeing on the Bull Run River. Given below are some attractions to the park which will tell you why you should visit Hemlock Overlook Regional Park.
Equestrian Trails
Hemlock Overlook Regional Park offers trails for horses and their riders near the entrance to the park. The trails vary in length, and several brushes along the Occoquan Reservoir, providing excellent views of the water.
Bull Run Occoquan Trail
NOVA Park’s longest natural surface trail is the 19.6 mile Bull Run-Occoquan hiking trail, which connects Bull Run, Hemlock Overlook, Bull Run Marina and Fountainhead Regional Parks. Accessible to both hikers or those on horseback, this incredible path takes visitors through more than 5,000 acres of scenic woodlands. Along this track, one will also find one of the region’s richest untapped historic resources.
Rope Course
The 225-acre Outdoor Education Center occupies a small cluster of buildings near the Hemlock Overlook Regional Park entrance. Those include four cabins with 96 beds, dining lodge, and a bathhouse. The center offers team development courses, overnight retreats, summer camps, and corporate training workshops, that use a hands-on methodology to teach cooperation and communication through challenges which can be only solved as a team. One of the main attractions is their zip line. Its programs, are open to the public by reservation and serve 20,000-30,000 people a year.
Team Development Program
The Team Development Program at Hemlock Overlook Regional Park is managed and operated by Adventure Links. The inherent benefits of Adventure Links' outdoor programming have stimulated individual and team development for years.
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