Extending more than 450 miles between Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, the Blue Ridge Parkway is a trip through the history of the Blue Ridge ...

About 0.9 miles in, you’ll intersect with the Otter Lake Loop Trail ... follow the trail near a tunnel under the Blue Ridge Parkway and continue on the walkway around the lake.

Nearly 4,000 acres of "critical" property in the Great Balsam Mountains along the Blue Ridge Parkway will be protected as forest and natural land under a new land conservation deal between a group ...

Repairs to the Blue Ridge Parkway will cost more than $1 billion. In 2023, the Blue Ridge Parkway, with hundreds of miles of winding roads cutting through Virginia and North Carolina, was visited ...

There are lots of hiking trails within the preserve, so it’s possible to take different routes (ranging from under ... Loop (0.3 miles) to get back. To get to the trailhead via the Blue Ridge ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Stretches of the Blue Ridge Parkway close to vehicles in the winter, which affords you the unique opportunity to experience it by foot. If it’s not too far, park and walk ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation received the 2025 Outstanding Public Engagement Award from the Public Lands Alliance during the organization’s annual convention and trade show in Las Vegas. The ...

As Western North Carolina continues to recover from Tropical Storm Helene, repairs along iconic Blue Ridge Parkway are likely to exceed $1 billion as landslides, fallen debris and flood damage ...