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, […]
Blue Ridge Parkway Wildflower Report for June 11, 2010
Early summer is a great time for blooms here in the Blue Ridge. Remember that your elevation change can make a great deal of difference in what you find blooming along the roadside or perhaps down your favorite Parkway trail. In Virginia through the Peaks of Otter area and across the high elevation of Apple […]
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 […]
“Motoring the Blue Ridge Parkway” Exhibit to Open Friday, June 11
This coming Friday, June 11, 2010, from 9a.m.-7p.m., the Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley, NC will be holding the grand opening of a new exhibit titled “Motoring the Blue Ridge: 75 years of the Blue Ridge Parkway.” Slated as an official Blue Ridge Parkway 75th Anniversary event, the exhibit will run through June […]
