Burkes Garden is Virginia’s highest-elevation valley. This remote but picturesque valley was formed by the collapse of a mountain, leaving behind a bowl-like valley called “God’s Thumbprint”
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Burkes Garden is Virginia’s highest-elevation valley. This remote but picturesque valley was formed by the collapse of a mountain, leaving behind a bowl-like valley called “God’s Thumbprint”