The first in a string of exceptional PATC shelters heading north (Rod Hollow and David Lesser are the others). I was going to overnight here in October 2001, but I was feeling strong after starting out at Front Royal and it was a lovely day for hiking, so I pushed on to Manassas Gap. Big mistake!

I ate lunch here in the company of Groundpounder and his son, SOBOs from Connecticut out for a week. The shelter design is similar to David Lesser: Dining pavilion, porch with bench seating outside the shelter, clean, a great front yard that gets a lot of sun, a piped spring with water drawn from a spigot, plus a cold-water shower that I wasn't dirty enough to take advantage of yet.

All in all, a great shelter. I think I read that Tom Floyd Wayside, just north of SNP, was recently rebuilt. If you're a NOBO and not stopping in Front Royal, then I'd shoot to stay at the Denton Shelter instead of Tom Floyd.

I was at the denton shelter in May of 2005 and the shower was non functional. At least I couldn't figure it out...

We stopped by the Denton shelter on 4/12/06, the shower was up and running and the place looked great. A great place to stay, IMO.

This is the best shelter in my section of the AT (I hike Harper's Ferry to Rockfish Gap mostly). I bet people day hike here just to have a family picnic.

I was stunned by what an awesome shelter this was when I got there, but I was too dumb to figure out the shower.