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Signal Knob

Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park

Barns and old plantation buildings among farms on a valley floor are seen from a mountain overlook. — Belle Grove Plantation and Cedar Creek Battlefield from Signal Knob on Massanutten Mountain.
NPS/ Ann & Rob Simpson

Rising 1,500 feet (457 meters) above the Shenandoah Valley floor and marking the northern end of Massanutten Mountain is Signal Knob. Used by both sides as a signal station throughout the war, this peak was used by Confederates to observe U.S. Army camps and plan the Battle of Cedar Creek.

Signal Knob is part of George Washington National Forest. Contact the Lee Ranger District in Edinburg, Virginia for updated hiking information.

Signal Knob is included in the Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove Plantation National Historic Landmark, a program run by the National Park Service.

An 1860s sketch shows officers and a signalman spying enemies from a mountain top.

Signal Knob

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