ASHEVILLE - The Blue Ridge Parkway, the most-visited site in the National Park Service, is sure to see high numbers of sightseers, hikers, campers, picnickers and of course, drivers this July ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway is now open from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia through mile marker 200.1, about 17 miles from the North Carolina state line.. Visitors can now access the northbound ...

On Feb. 12, Blue Ridge Parkway Superintendent Tracy Swartout told the Citizen Times that the cost of repairing the parkway is between $1 billion to $2 billion, noting that parkway staff are still ...

A section of the Blue Ridge Parkway has been closed by officials “after multiple documented reports of visitors feeding and attempting to hold a young bear in recent weeks,” the National Park ...

Repairs to the Blue Ridge Parkway will cost more than $1 billion. In 2023, the Blue Ridge Parkway, with hundreds of miles of winding roads cutting through Virginia and North Carolina, was visited ...

About 250 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway, or 53% of the road, remains closed following Tropical Storm Helene's destruction of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina on Sept. 27.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is among the most-visited national parks in the country. So far in 2025, the parkway has received 1,407,527 visitors, according to National Park Service records. Those ...

The fastest route from the Triangle drive to the Blue Ridge Parkway takes you north west, to Afton, Va., It is about 2 hours and 45 minutes along Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 421.