Links to Sites Near Slabsides

Slabsides is about 4 miles from Colonel Denning State Park, which sits within Doubling Gap.  The Doubling Gap Center is in a historic hotel that was at one time a popular summer retreat. The Tuscarora Trail runs along the ridge top, 1,100  feet further up the mountain.  Slabsides sits at 850 feet and is completely surrounded by the Tuscarora State Forest.  It takes approximately 90 minutes to hike to the top of the ridge.  The Borough of Newville is 6 miles to the south.


Colonel Denning State Park

Colonel Denning State Park 2

Colonel Denning - Wikipedia Entry

Tuscarora Trail - Wikipedia Entry

Tuscarora Trail Maps

Tuscarora State Forest

Doubling Gap Center

Doubling Gap Satellite View

Borough of Newville

Burroughs on Naming Slabsides

" ... I was offered a tract of wild land, barely a mile from home, that contained a secluded nook and a few acres of level, fertile land shut off from the vain and noisy world by a wooded precipitous mountain... and built me a rustic house there, which I call it 'Slabsides' because its outer walls are covered with slabs. I might have given it a prettier name, but not one more fit, of more in keeping with the mood that brought me thither.  A slab is the first cut from the log...I wanted to take a fresh cut of life-- something that had the bark on... Life has a different flavor here. It is reduced to simpler terms; its complex equations all disappear."

-from Far and Near by John Burroughs

Christmas Eve Scenes

Scenes from Christmas Eve at a warm and cozy Slabsides.

Cleaning the Mussels for the cioppino

First Snow of the Season

We awoke late last week to a dusting of snow that transformed the landscape and signaled more of what is to come. 

Slabsides Porch