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 Wildflower Report for July 23, 2010
Here in mid-summer Parkway meadows are filled with the beautiful blooms of summer that remind us that just about any time of year or season the Parkway is a wonderful place for those who love wildflowers. North of Roanoke, Virginia, which includes Peaks of Otter and the high elevations across Apple Orchard Mountain, visitors will […]
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 […]
Lifelong Love of the Blue Ridge Parkway leads to 110 Acres Preserved
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. – The Blue Ridge Parkway’s spectacular protected landscape will grow by 110 acres with the donation and sale of property owned by a man who remembers seeing the scenic highway constructed through his family’s land. Joe Arrington sold a 64-acre parcel to the Conservation Trust for North Carolina in April and, in June, […]
