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Roadside signs like this will be set up to guide attendees from US Rt 50 to Timber Ridge camp, on Friday and Saturday, Sept 5 and 6.

Here are the camps "Directions to Timber Ridge Camp." Note that their directions from Washington, D.C. use Interstate Route 66 to the west. Here are Google Maps directions for that route. That route is straightforwad, but is also heavily travelled from the Washington Beltway (I-495) west to Gainesville (where US Rt 29 turns south). During Friday afternoon commute/escape, I-66 can get very slow, especially in rainly weather. While Google Maps says "up to 2 hours 10 mins in traffic", I allow myself at least 2.5 hours to travel from the Washington Beltway (I-495) to Timber Ridge Camp on a Friday afternoon. For Washington area traffic reports, "every 10 minutes on the 8's", tune to WTOP radio, 103.5 FM.

An alternate to the I-66 route is to take the Dulles Toll Rd (VA Route 267) west from the Washington Beltway (I-495), continuing on the Greenway (also Route 267, with tolls), then VA Rt 7 west. Here are Google Maps directions for that route. This route also has lots of traffic, but it doesn't seem quite as vulnerable to rain and accidents as I-66. To avoid tolls, here are Google Maps directions to take VA Rt 7 west all the way from the Washington Beltway (I-495), but note that VA Rt 7 is heavily travelled and slow at least until you get west of VA Rt 28.

Here are Google Maps directions from Dulles Airport to the camp, via the Greenway and VA Rt 7 west.

Here are some landmarks and measured mileage readings starting from the exit from I-81, which is Exit 310 onto bypass Route 37 (all mileages are approximate):

1. 5.1 miles on Route 37, to the exit onto Route 50 (toward Romney). Turn left (west) at the light at the end of the exit ramp.
2. 10.8 miles on Route 50 to the Gore Volunteer Fire station – this is a large white cinder-block building on your right, usually very well lit, even at night. When you see the fire station (and there's a yellow roadside sign to warn you), move into the left hand lane.
3. 0.5 miles from the fire station to the LEFT hand turn onto Route 259.
4. 4.2 miles on Route 259 to the West Virginia state line sign.
5. 0.5 miles to the RIGHT hand turn onto Christian Church Road – this is just past the Case tractor dealership.
6. 1.4 miles on Christian Church Road (it has a double yellow stripe) to the church (on your right) and the church office building (on your left) – both red brick buildings.
7. 0.2 miles to a LEFT hand turn onto Hooks Mill Road.
8. 1.4 miles on Hooks Mill, most of it downhill, until you see a "Dead End" sign and the pavement ends. Turn LEFT onto a gravel road.
9. 0.2 miles uphill. Take the RIGHT fork, then it's 0.3 miles to the gate.
10. Follow our yellow roadside signs to the bottom of the hill, curve left along the camp's main road to the purple A-Frame, on your right.
11. If you need an immediate pitstop before checking in, the small dark blue building just past the A-Frame (on the same side of the road) has bathroom facilities.

To drive from Capon Bridge south to Timber Ridge Camp is about 7.5 miles. From US Rt 50, take Christian Church Rd, NOT Cacapon River Rd. Here are Google Maps directions.

Microsoft Live Maps has by far the highest resolution aerial images that I have found of Timber Ridge camp. Follow this link, then zoom in ALL the way and click on "Aerial" along the top border of the map.

Helpful Google Maps hints: I have not found a mapable street address for Timber Ridge Camp, but this works: CR-13/3 @39.229320, -78.464480