Jul 20, 2009
Number of acres in North Carolina: 45,040
Miles of Hiking Trails: 350
Number of Tunnels: 26
Number of Visitor Centers: 14
Number of Bridges: 151
Number of Dams: 14
Number of Sewer Systems: 101
Number of Historic Houses and Cabins: …
Jun 8, 2009
The Blue Ridge Parkway has been called “America’s Favorite Drive.” And for good reason. Stretching 469 miles, this ribbon of road wends its way past the postcard perfect farms and pastures of southwest Virginia and crosses the high mountain peaks of western North Carolin…
Jun 8, 2009
While many people think of the Blue Ridge Parkway as just a motor road, it is also a place of varied and significant natural resources. The Parkway follows the high crests of the central and southern Appalachians for 469 miles from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky …
Jun 8, 2009
The park has approximately 4,000 adjacent land owners. Development of subdivisions along the Parkway is increasing rapidly, especially in agricultural lands of the Plateau and Highlands Districts, in the urban corridors of Roanoke and Asheville whose topographic features are gentle and ro…
Jun 8, 2009
The Blue Ridge Parkway is an extremely fragile linear national park with an annual visitation of nearly 20 million visitors per year. The Parkway was built within a varying width right-ofway, which provides an “insulating” park area between the Parkway motor road and abutting…
Jun 7, 2009
The Blue Ridge Parkway was designed to maximize scenic views and give visitors the impression that they are in a park with boundaries to the horizon. This scenic motor road has some 500,000 acres of view area scenery within a two-mile wide and 469 mile-long corridor that traverses 29 coun…
Jun 5, 2009
Over the course of the next three years, this country will acknowledge the shared heritage of some of the world’s richest natural and cultural resources through these combined anniversaries.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Tennessee – North Carolina
1934 – 2009…
Jun 5, 2009
Blue Ridge Parkway 75, Inc. is pleased to work in partnership with two official “Parkway Partner” groups - Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and Eastern National - to offer interested public, businesses and organizations access to unique items commemo-rating the Parkway’s 7…
Jun 5, 2009
The Blue Ridge Parkway located in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains is an area of the world that contains exceptional plant biodiversity. Some 50 plants species are actively harvested in support of the $200 billion global natural products industry. The three most commonly poa…
