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Mount Trashmore
Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets
Category Watery Wonders, Unusual Monuments, Intriguing Environs
Virginia Beach's Mount Trashmore is at times a skate park, kid-friendly respite, and fishing hole, but it's always a dump.
Created by compacting layers of refuse with clean soil. Covering roughly 165-acres, the Mount Trashmore Park includes two lakes, two mountains, a multitude of trails, the park looks from the outside to have never been a dump at all, but looks can be deceiving.
If one were to dig beneath the surface they would find that the whole hill is covered in a thick layer of rubber to keep water from running through the trash. In addition, three of the flag poles in the park secretly act as vents for methane gas released by the rotting trash beneath the scenic park. Apparently lightning struck one once and the gases being released caught flame.
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- Hours Monday - Sunday, 730 am until sunset (skate park opens at 800 am)
- Website Mount Trashmore
- Address 310 Edwin Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
- Cost Free
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When I was younger, I'd say about eight years ago, a radio host made an on-air announcement that somehow the layer of rubber shielding the public from the toxic waste beneath the mountain was somehow punctured. It caused wide-spread panic. The public went into a frenzy. People left their jobs, picked up their children from school, and just drove out of town. This was before cell phones took hold, so even after the host came back on the air and announced it was all bogus and apologized for his remiss in announcing this people had no way to hear him once they were out of his stations airwaves. I remember my next-door neighbor being away for days. What an amazing April Fool's Day.
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