WAYNESVILLE, N.C. – What would bring a dentist, a colonel, an electrician, a postal worker and an engineer together? The answer is National Trails Day, an annual celebration that encourages appreciation, awareness and enjoyment of America’s trails. This event was celebrated at the most visited National Park Service site in America: The Blue Ridge Parkway. […]
Grandfather Mountain Highland Games July 8-11
GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN, NC – The 55th Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games and Gathering of Scottish Clans brings the color of hundreds of tartan plaids and the clamor of half a dozen bagpipe bands to the North Carolina Highlands Thursday through Sunday, July 8-11. The Grandfather Games are considered America’s grandest Games because of the spectacular […]
Northwest Trading Post Open After Delay
A nonprofit retail outlet on the Blue Ridge Parkway for arts, crafts and homemade jellies relishes and bread from Wilkes, Ashe and Alleghany counties for over 50 years has reopened for the season. The Northwest Trading Post, a Parkway concessionaire at Milepost 259 in Glendale Springs near the Wilkes-Ashe county line, reopened about a month […]
Slide Stabilization Progresses in Pisgah Section of Blue Ridge Parkway
(Asheville, NC) The potential slide area on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 400.8 near Mt. Pisgah is undergoing stabilization work that will open one traffic-controlled lane through the closed area by early July 2010. Once the parkway is opened, an automated traffic signal light will alternate traffic through the construction zone. On October 14, […]
Parkway Facilities Undergo Wastewater Collection System Inspections
(Asheville, NC) During the next three months, contractors will be performing video inspection and cleaning services for all Blue Ridge Parkway sewer collection systems, including those at campgrounds, visitor centers, maintenance areas, offices, etc. Sewage collection pipes will be cleaned using water jetting and vacuuming pumps that will generate intermittent loud noise. The contractor intends […]
