• The long vistas are part of a Blue Ridge Parkway experience

    Blue Ridge

    Parkway NC,VA

  • PLEASE EXCUSE TALL GRASS

    Due to a Maintenance employee fatality on May 7, 2012, all mowing and vegetation removal operations have been suspended until a complete safety review can be completed. This is a temporary situation, and we anticipate regular operations will resume soon.

Directions

The Parkway connects Shenandoah National Park near Waynesboro, VA (Milepost 0) with Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee, NC (Milepost 469).  There are entrances and exits at all major federal and state highways and part of a Parkway experience is getting into the towns and communities of the region.  Asheville and Boone, NC and Roanoke, VA are the largest cities along the way.  In Virginia, Interstates 64, 81, and 77 all have directions for accessing the Parkway.  The same is true for Interstates 40 and 26 in North Carolina.

Check the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section of the website for answers to some of the things you may be wondering about.

Did You Know?

Mabry Mill

The Blue Ridge Parkway celebrated its 75th anniversary throughout 2010 with  events in dozens of adjacent communities.