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 ...

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 ...

A good stretch of the popular and winding Blue Ridge Parkway is now reopened for safe motoring and scenic fall viewing following Hurricane Helene.. The parkway reopened on Friday from milepost 0 ...

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 ...

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.

Helene ripped parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway away, including this section near Gooch Gap in McDowell County. The road is closed for the foreseeable future in all of North Carolina and Virginia ...