Michener Cabin

Michener Cabin (Summer 2007)

Michener Cabin is located just off the Appalachian Trail on Big Flat.  We often walk by it when we loop hike from the parking area just off Ridge Road where the AT crosses Dead Womans Hollow Road.  The AT dips down to the cabin on an old road bordered by numerous pines.  At the cabin take a right (southwest) on Dead Womans Hollow Trail which first crosses a spring and then winds back to Dead Womans Hollow Road.  Go right (north) on Dead Womans Hollow Road to get back to your car.  We took this walk the day after Thanksgiving 2011.  It was a beautifully clear fall day.  Since it had just rained the spring was overflowing.

Pine on AT near Michener (T-giving 2011)

If you take a left (southeast) at the cabin you can take Blueberry Trail to an overlook and then a steep downhill to Tumbling Run parking on 233.  [This is not a loop hike.]  A number of years ago we flushed a mother turkey and her chicks on a spring hike on the Blueberry Trail

Michener cabin is maintained by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and can be rented from them.  [http://www.patc.net]  It is listed as primitive - no running water or electricity, outhouse, spring water, and a picnic table. Parking is 1 mile away.

Spring near Michener (T-giving 2011)