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Parkway Paves Linville Falls Picnic Area

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Date: August 24, 2010

(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 and parking repaving, replacement of existing asphalt sidewalks, drain repairs, and restriping of the road and parking area. Linville Falls Picnic Area is located near Milepost 316 of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Avery County, North Carolina.

Work in the picnic area is expected to continue through mid-September, weather permitting. During the construction operations on the road into the picnic area, the picnic facility will be closed. Work on the associated parking loops will require only portions or loops of the picnic area to be closed.

Did You Know?

Graceful curves and old fences along the Parkway

Several of the early designers, architects, and engineers of the Blue Ridge Parkway worked together on New York's Westchester County Parkway, incorporating many of the same design elements.