NC: Appalachia: Blue Ridge Parkway
55 images Created 24 Mar 2011
This gallery illustrates North Carolina's section of the Blue Ridge Parkway. (See separate gallery for Virginia's section.) Photos by Tom Dempsey include:
- Moses H. Cone Memorial Park
- Beacon Heights Trail
- Grandfather Mountain
- Linville Falls and Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, Pisgah National Forest.
- Waterrock Knob Trail
- various overlooks and fall foliage colors
The scenic 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway was built 1935-1987 to aesthetically connect Shenandoah National Park (in Virginia) with Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina, following crest-lines and the Appalachian Trail. It is both a National Parkway and an "All-American Road" (one of the best of the National Scenic Byways).
- Moses H. Cone Memorial Park
- Beacon Heights Trail
- Grandfather Mountain
- Linville Falls and Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, Pisgah National Forest.
- Waterrock Knob Trail
- various overlooks and fall foliage colors
The scenic 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway was built 1935-1987 to aesthetically connect Shenandoah National Park (in Virginia) with Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina, following crest-lines and the Appalachian Trail. It is both a National Parkway and an "All-American Road" (one of the best of the National Scenic Byways).
