Blue Ridge Parkway

For travelers and emergency workers in much of the country, any dreams of a "White Christmas" will likely be remembered as bad ones this year. Many parks have been impacted by recent storms, but among the hardest hit are the Blue Ridge Parkway and Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. read more  

The Associated Press A winter storm is moving into the Carolinas, likely dumping a foot of snow in mountain areas. Snow, sometimes mixed with rain, is predicted to fall on much of the Atlantic seaboard on the last shopping weekend before Christmas.  

2010 is the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway. There are many ceremonies and celebrations planned through out the year just as there was for the 2009, 75th Anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Will have a calendar of events posted on my website soon. Hope to see some of you at these events.  

Blue Ridge Parkway Nelson County, Virginia If you’re like most of us living here in Nelson, you sometimes use the BRP as a way to get from here to there more quickly. And if you are a visitor, you want to know whether the parkway is open or not. Most of us make the trip up only [...]  

The sour economy has created tough times across the country. Whether that was behind an apparent poaching incident along the Blue Ridge Parkway is hard to say. read more  

Blue Ridge Parkway management announced that starting Monday, Dec. 7, a contract with Espina Stone, Inc. will begin replacing substandard guardrail on the Parkway, beginning at Milepost 0 at Rockfish Gap, U.S.  

The Blue Ridge Parkway turns 75 in 2010, and to commemorate that milestone, the National Park Service kicked off an opening weekend celebration. It began with a torch lighting ceremony on Friday, and continued Saturday with a benefit concert. The ...  

Blue Ridge Parkway’s 75th Anniversary is next year, but the celebration is already getting under way. Two BRP75 Opening Weekend events are taking place today in Asheville, North Carolina, a city that learned on a happy day in November 1934 that it was to become a parkway community after all. read more  

© NCBrian via Flickr Friday morning marked the kick off of a year-long celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway. At the Ravensford Overlook, officials began the anniversary with a Cherokee Indian ceremonial dance. The celebration continues today with an all-star benefit concert at 7:00 p.m. at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville. Grammy-award winning songwriter and musician Nanci Griffith and bluegrass legends...  

ASHEVILLE -- Don Pedi will play traditional Southern Appalachian dulcimer tunes 1-3 p.m Saturday in a holiday open house at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, two miles south of the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway  

"Speed Checked By Radar, Enforced by Natural Selection"Somewhere on the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC - February 2001 (Click to embiggen) Hosted by Written Inc.If the unthinkable should ever occur and I get bored with the North Carolina beaches, a little further from me in the other direction are the North Carolina mountains. Which include a substantial portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Parkway is a nearly 500-mile strip running along the...  

VIRGINIA ROANOKE Parkway guardrails to be replaced Old-fashioned all-wood guardrails along more than half the 460-mile Blue Ridge Parkway aren't much use at stopping cars. Mike Molling, chief of maintenance and engineering for the parkway, said the older rails can't stop a car moving at 45 mph and that many are too low to the ground to be effective at all. A $7 million replacement project three years in the making will start next month and...  

Nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains just a stone’s throw from the intersection of the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway a wonderful event is being carried out. Some call it “the greatest story ever told,” some call it “a Christmas miracle,” but for the several hundred workers who will come together [...]  

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a venerable institution in our part of the world. This scenic drive runs 469 miles, from Shenandoah National Park (south of Charlottesville, VA) to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina (southwest of Asheville). The road winds through the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia, and the [...]  

If you've driven, hiked or biked along the magnificent Blue Ridge Parkway from Waynesboro, Va., through Western North Carolina, you've seen the spectacular mountain vistas of the ridgetops and the graceful curves of one of America's most scenic highways.Chances are you've also seen the downside of official neglect of a splendid resource. It includes encroaching development marring the view in some spots near the parkway in southwest Virginia...