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Stories and memories submitted by Blue Ridge Parkway travelers.

My Mother adored the Blue Ridge Parkway

"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills..." was wood-burned into the devotional place at Camp Burgis Glenn, and in evening, the sunset view from there of Mt. Pisgah was truly inspirational to me.

Blue Banshee

In spring 1985, as part of a coast to coast trip to return to New England after an exile in California, I had both the pleasure of a late-May roll up and down the beautiful Parkway and the experien

New Friends

Last fall we enjoyed a tour with the Bicycle Adventure Club in North Carolina. While visiting with friends in Asheville after the tour, I spent a day riding on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Blue Ridge Parkway on the TransAm Bicycle Trail

I rode a small part of the Blue Ridge Parkway as a part of my TransAmerica Bicycle Trip, from Afton to Vesuvius, VA.

Bicycling the Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway

 The Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway extend for 575 miles through the eastern most part of the Appalachian Mountains from Front Royal, VA in the north to Cherokee, NC in the south.

Biking the Blue Ridge Parkway

In September of 2004 I decided to bike the Parkway. Things went well until I reached the halfway point at Meadows of Dan.

A Little Rain On the Parkway

In 2010 my wife and I did a self supported Transam bicycle tour east to west on a Tandem when we were both 77 years old.

Same Axe

 Outside the diner at Fancy Gap, my brother’s and my bikes are leaned against the wall. His is a newish scandium Eddy Merckx, mine a nearly forty year old Mercian Olympic now on its third respray.

Snake Etiquette - What Not To Do on the Parkway

Many years ago while bicycling a small portion of the Parkway, my friend Roger B. and I were cycling up and down the Blue Ridge for a "fun" vacation.

Once in a Life Time Trip

The Blue Ridge Parkway is the most beautiful place I have seen. We left south central KY on Aug.

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