Open all year. Access roads may be impassible following storms.
Driving directions: From Winchester, take I-81 south for approx. 30 miles to Exit 283 at Woodstock, VA. Follow Route 42 west to Columbia Furnace (5.2 mi.). Turn right onto Union Church Road and then, in only 0.1 mi., turn left onto Route 623 (Back Road). After 0.2 mi., turn right onto Route 675 (Wolf Gap Road), which leads approx. 13 miles to Wolf Gap Campground at the top of the ridge.
Hiking directions: The trail to Big Schloss begins at Site 9 in the campground. It climbs, sometimes steeply, approx. 0.75 miles to the ridge. Bear left onto a narrower trail here. After another 1.2 miles, bear right onto a trail marked with white blazes. (Do not follow the orange blazed route that leads straight ahead.) Big Schloss and its summit views are only 0.3 miles further. Return by the same route (2.2 miles) to Wolf Gap Campground.
(Map from www.dayhikes.info)