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The Blue Ridge Parkway
 

Completed in 1987, the Blue Ridge Parkway motor road extends 470.02 miles from Rockfish Gap at the southern end of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Oconaluftee area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. It includes 216.95 miles in Virginia and 253.07 in North Carolina.

The Parkway contains 81,680 acres of Federal land – 46,961 in North Carolina and 34,719 in Virginia.

Construction on the Parkway began September 11, 1935 at Cumberland Knob (Milepost 217.5), which is .6 mile south of the Virginia-North Carolina state line.
The first completed segment of the Parkway motor road is 12 miles between NC 18 and US 21 in Alleghany County, NC.  It opened to traffic in April 1939. The final section was completed in 1987 – 7.5 miles around Grandfather Mountain which included the Linn Cove Viaduct.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is the most visited unit of the 391 units of the National Park Service with over 19,000,000 visitors – excluding commuter traffic – each year. That’s more visitors than Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone national parks combined.

The Parkway passes through two states, 29 counties, six Congressional districts, four National Forests (George Washington, Jefferson, Pisgah, and Nantahala), and the Qualla Boundary Cherokee Indian Reservation.

The Parkway has nine campgrounds with a total of 721 tent sites and 351 RV sites. There are 15 developed picnic areas and approximately 275 parking overlooks. 

The motor road crosses 151 bridges and goes through 26 tunnels, 25 of which are in North Carolina. The longest, Pine Mountain Tunnel at milepost 399, is 1,320 feet long.

Concessioners provide visitor services at 11 locations on the Parkway. Overnight lodging can be found at four of these locations and food service at six.

Designated as an All-American Road, the Blue Ridge Parkway’s natural features include spectacular mountain and valley vistas, quiet pastoral scenes, sparkling waterfalls, colorful flowers, and foliage displays. 

Designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Parkway is recognized throughout the world as an international example of landscape and engineering design achievements.

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