Skyline Drive & Blue Ridge Parkway

For sure.

I use gps and mapping apps all the time, starting in the mid 90s for aviation use, where gps was a game changer.

But I still like paper backup for the boondocks. My place for example is improperly georeferenced on most mapping software. It's amazing how many folks these days can't even follow step by step directions, regardless of what you say they still just put in the address and end up one ridge over on the wrong road, and with no cell signal so now they have no idea what to do. I've gotten to where I try not to give the address at all so they have to pay attention to the directions.

Well, I'll have to look those up! Thanx!

Whatever works for you. Call me old fashioned but I still like good ole reliable paper maps. Look for the dispersed camping areas in Monongahela NF, there are several and I've yet to find one I didn't like.

You can order the NF paper maps here:

usgs

Sounds good. For more dirt and less peeps also look further west at Monongahela NF and thereabouts. Getting further west puts you in higher country and further from the big East Coast cities. One place I really like is Dolly Sods Wilderness, nice little NF campground there, lots of hiking in the area. There are several nice dispersed camping areas in the general area around Elkins WV as well, and the altitude is around 3000 ft so it's usually nice and cool. Get paper copies of the NF maps of the area, they are very handy and there is zero cell signal in most of that country. Also WV has some very nice undeveloped state parks worth looking at. One I like is Kumbrabow SP. Plenty of dirt NF roads, but most of there run east west up and down the ridges. To make distance north south you will mostly be on two lanes in the valleys. Depends on how far West you are willing to go on your return leg.