E 3 miles on VA 16 to Troutdale, VA. Sufi Lodge<https://www.sufilodge.org/>offers rooms at reasonable rates, breakfast, shuttles, (276) 677-0195, mail drops.
E 0.2 miles to site of former Raccoon Branch Shelter, now a campsite.
Sleeps 16, privy, no tenting. Sink and shower. Close to Va. 16, pizza delivery available.
Site of old Davis Path Shelter, now a campsite with a picnic table and privy.
Crawfish Trail joins the AT at a campsite. Just west of the AT is Reed Creek.
Summit of Chestnut Knob. Fully enclosed shelter sleeps 8, tenting, privy. Water source is an unreliable piped spring south on the http://AT.For the next six and a half miles north, the AT follows the rim of Garden Mountain around the bowl-like valley of Burkes Garden.
AT crosses Suiter Road just outside the western border of the Hunting Camp Creek Wilderness.
W 0.5 miles to Trent's Grocery,<https://www.facebook.com/TrentsGrocery/>, (276) 928-1349, accepts packages.
Sleeps 6, privy. Water source is a spring next to the shelter.
This is the closest foot access to http://Pearisburg.East 1 mile to Pearisburg, VA. The town has resupply options, restaurants and lodging.