(Asheville, NC) Storm damage clean-up continues on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. A contractor will begin working at Milepost 290 at the Thunder Hill Parking Overlook on Monday, August 2, and continue north to Milepost 275 at Deep Gap. Visitors should avoid this area to prevent delays in travel. Gate closures will be […]
Coca-Cola to Award $100,000 Grant to Most Popular National Park
Vote now and help the Blue Ridge Parkway receive $100,000 from Coca-Cola! This summer, Coca-Cola is showing its love for parks by granting $100,000 to the park that receives the most votes at www.livepositively.com. Plus, for every vote, Coca-Cola will donate $1 to National Park Foundation. Want to make sure the Blue Ridge Parkway gets […]
Blue Ridge Parkway’s 75th Anniversary Festival
The Blue Ridge Parkway’s 75th Anniversary Festival is a multi-day, multi-venue event staged in and around Cumberland Knob Recreation Area in North Carolina, where Parkway construction began on September 11, 1935. Two locations, the Blue Ridge Music Center (MP 213) and the Cumberland Knob Recreation Area (MP 217), will be home to the festival that […]
Blue Ridge Parkway Travel Advisory Revised
(Asheville, NC) The daily closures scheduled for this week for corridor tree trimming and hazard tree work on sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway, from Milepost 393 to Milepost 383, have changed. The current closure schedule is as follows: Milepost 393.5, the French Broad River access to State Road 191, to Milepost 388.5, near the […]
Parkway Repaves Portions of Linville Falls Picnic Area
(Linville, NC) Beginning the week of August 2, 2010, TAB Construction Company, Inc. will conduct contract work to repave the road into the Linville Falls Picnic Area of the Blue Ridge Parkway and two of the picnic area parking loops. The contract work is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and includes road […]
