Where is the Blue Ridge Parkway open? In addition to the recently opened segment near the Great Smoky Mountains, visitors can access 20 miles of the road from 285.5 (the Bamboo Gap) to mile marker ...

A Blue Ridge Parkway section opened July 21 near Linville Falls and Beacon Heights, as crews push through the first round of ...

But that will likely start to change in the next couple of weeks. Areas along the Blue Ridge Mountains change color earlier than areas along the I-95 corridor.

The Blue Ridge Mountains, seen from a viewing area off the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina Nov. 3, 2024. Sections of the parkway were reopened after being closed due to damage caused by ...

In 2023, the Blue Ridge Parkway, with hundreds of miles of winding roads cutting through Virginia and North Carolina, was visited by 16.7 million people and brought in $1.4 billion in local ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway travels through the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the larger Appalachian Mountain Range, for 469 miles from Waynesboro, Virginia, south to Cherokee, North Carolina.

Virginia’s Blue Ridge is renowned for its scenic mountain views, forest hikes that offer both solitude and unexpected surprises, bike routes that attract cyclists from all over the country, and ...

While the name "Stone Mountain" is more commonly associated with the family-friendly park outside Atlanta, North Carolina's Stone Mountain State Park features a spectacular slice of the Blue Ridge ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway pulled in $1.4 billion in visitor spending in 2023, according to the National Park Service, and Helene caused "moderate to catastrophic" damage to more than 187,000 acres of ...