Blue Ridge Parkway
North Carolina, Virginia
| Introduction | March 2000 | Fall 2007 | Late Summer 2011 | Related Links |
|
| Click to go directly to the slideshow |
First, the three times I've been on the Parkway have been in three different seasons, early spring (no leaves on the trees), fall (fall colors on the trees), and summer (green leaves on the trees.) So if I collated the images in order, the pictures would look radically different from image to image. So, I've decided to keep the images separated by trip.
Second, I'm not really sure I could collate all the images. This is one reason why I wish Canons would have a GPS.
One final thing to notice, THERE ARE NO BLUE SKIES! The weather/fog was miserable every time I've driven the road. It's batting 0 for 3...
|
| Click for a full map of the parkway |
This trip wasn't exactly in the winter, but it was before the leaves developed on the deciduous trees...
In 2007 we specifically scheduled the trip to see the fall colors. We were almost successful.
Mother Nature never wants to cooperate with me, lol...
These were taken in early September before the leaves started changing.
|
| Highest Elevation... and fog... |
Related Links
| Great Smoky Mountain National Park | |
|---|---|
|
Great Smoky Mountain National Park is the most visited park in America due to its location in the East. It's a scenic park, with the tourist towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge just outside the entrance on one side, and the start of the Blue Ridge Parkway, one of my favorite roads in America on the other. It is a hugely popular park for fall colors. |
| North Carolina, Tennessee / 67 Images. Visited Mar 2000, Oct 2007, Sep 2011. | |
| Natchez Trace Parkway | |
|---|---|
|
I've actually driven all 443 miles of the Natchez Trace Parkway, who's history goes back hundreds of years before the industrial revolution. Once one of the most important roads in young America, today it's preserved as a monument to its past history, with dozens of historic and scenic sites along its length. If you're travelling to a destination somewhere along the Trace, it'd be worth the extra half-day or so to drive a portion of it... |
| Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee / 94 Images. Visited Jun 1998, Mar 2000, Nov 2011. | |
Trip Report: Mar 2000, Oct 2007, Sep 2011.
| Return to: | State Index | North Carolina State Page | Roads |
|---|
- 04/30/2016 - Initial deployment
- April 2017 - Upgrade to v3.4.
- August 2022 - Upgrade to v5.0.
| Help! | About This Site | Contact Me |