Here are a few ideas for places to drive to.
Several scenic drives are described here (
https://tinyurl.com/y52psav4 ) including a drive through Fort Valley (north of Luray), a place with an interesting history (George Washington had been a surveyor and knew the area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Valley_(Virginia)
Luray Caverns and auto museum — yes, there is a Morgan in the museum, a 1931 Super Sports Aero 2-speeder that’s been somewhat modified over the years. Unfortunately it’s not roadworthy.
Meems Bottom covered bridge near Mount Jackson:
https://tinyurl.com/y3v2sfce, about an hour away from Skyland (might be fun to take Route 675 over Massanutten mountain)
Willow Mill, just south of Luray on 340 (I think we can’t get into the building itself):
https://millpictures.com/mills.php?millid=776New Market Civil War battlefield:
http://newmarketbattlefieldmilitarymuseum.com/Canoeing or kayaking on the south fork of the Shenandoah River (a slow, meandering river) with outfitters such as this one in Bentonville, 50 minutes from Skyland:
https://www.downriver.com/Railroad museum in Luray:
https://www.virginia.org/Listings/Museums/AugustaCountyRailroadMuseum/ Zip line on 211 toward Luray (Lee and I did this last year; not cheap but fun. Allow a couple of hours for this.):
https://bearmountainadventure.com/The Copper Fox distillery in Sperryville (just over the Blue Ridge from Luray).
https://www.copperfoxdistillery.com/VDOT county maps are here:
http://virginiadot.org/travel/county_maps.asp. Skyland is in Page County, south of the intersection of Skyline Drive and highway 211, southeast of Luray, but is not indicated on the map. These maps do not necessarily show gravel roads that intersect Skyline Drive or the Blue Ridge Parkway but Google Maps does (yet I can’t confirm accuracy in all cases). The counties we are most likely to drive through are Page, Warren, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Madison, Greene, Albemarle, and Augusta.
I drove up a gravel road (781) I’d seen on a map a couple of days ago which goes from Natural Bridge to the Blue Ridge Parkway at Petits Gap and when I emerged onto the Parkway I noticed there were no markings on the Parkway for any similar side roads. As I drove along the Parkway I noticed that the GPS moving map incorrectly indicated locations of side road intersections, but I suspect all of the unmarked gravel roads (located at the gaps) drop down to nearby towns. I hesitate to recommend we do that on other similar roads intersecting Skyline Drive without test-driving them first, but 781, although it had a washboard surface in a couple of places, was suitable for a Morgan. The upside was that I didn’t encounter a single vehicle until I got to the Parkway. The downside was that there were only a couple of places where I had long-distance views.
