Blue Ridge Parkway - Virginia

State: Virginia
National Forest: George Washington and Jefferson National Forests
Length: 217.0 mi / 349.2 km
Time to Allow: 6 hours to drive or 2 days to tour the Byway

Virginia's Blue Ridge Parkway is an elongated, man-made feature that provides a safe leisurely recreational driving experience. It embraces Southern Appalachian cultural, natural, scenic and recreational resources. The Byway promotes understanding, appreciation and knowledge of Appalachia by preserving and protecting the natural, historic and cultural resources contained within its boundaries

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For more information see the designated byway:

• Blue Ridge Parkway

  The Parkway provides spectacular mountain and valley vistas, quiet pastoral scenes, sparkling waterfalls and colorful flower and foliage displays as it extends through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina.