Blue Ridge Parkway
Scenic Highway · Asheville, North Carolina
Four hundred and sixty-nine miles of two-lane road along the crest of the Blue Ridge, from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina, and the longest linear park in the United States. It has been the most visited unit of the National Park System in every year since 1946 but four. Construction began in North Carolina, at Cumberland Knob on 11 September 1935, and the last piece - the Linn Cove Viaduct, curling around the flank of Grandfather Mountain - did not open until 1987, fifty-two years later.
199 Hemphill Knob Road, Asheville, North Carolina, 28803, United States
FREE and open 24 hours a day, year round, with NO ENTRANCE FEE and no gates on most of its length. SECTIONS CLOSE - routinely in winter for ice and snow at elevation, and for storm and landslide repair. Visitor centres and campgrounds are seasonal, generally May to October. THE ROAD IS NOT A SINGLE CONTINUOUS DRIVE AT ALL TIMES: check the National Park Service road closure map before you travel, every time.
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