Blue Ridge Parkway officials have opened a section of the 469-mile historic route in North Carolina from milepost 305.2, near ...

A Blue Ridge Parkway section opened July 21 near Linville Falls and Beacon Heights, as crews push through the first round of ...

Progress is being made tonight on areas of the Blue Ridge Parkway heavily damaged by Hurricane Helene. Flooding and mudslides ...

Cell service is spotty on the Blue Ridge Parkway, so be sure to download your trail maps ahead of time using AllTrails+ ($35.99 for a year). The free version is fantastic, too, but you can’t download ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway is now open from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia through mile marker 200.1, about 17 miles from the North Carolina state line.. Visitors can now access the northbound ...

In 2023, the Blue Ridge Parkway, with hundreds of miles of winding roads cutting through Virginia and North Carolina, was visited by 16.7 million people and brought in $1.4 billion in local ...

Where is the Blue Ridge Parkway open? In addition to the recently opened segment near the Great Smoky Mountains, visitors can access 20 miles of the road from 285.5 (the Bamboo Gap) to mile marker ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway is among the most-visited national parks in the country. So far in 2025, the parkway has received 1,407,527 visitors, according to National Park Service records. Those ...

Tracy Swartout, Superintendent of Blue Ridge Parkway National Park Service. The National Park Service is focusing on repairs at eight locations, working to stabilize roads and remove debris.

With much of Blue Ridge Parkway closed due to unsafe conditions caused by Hurricane Helene, these are some other ways to see changing fall colors. Skip to main content. Boydton, VA ...

That said, Blue Ridge Parkway is by no means the only place where people can enjoy the changing fall colors. Here are some options worth considering: Cades Cove.

BLOWING ROCK — Blue Ridge Parkway officials opened a section of the 469-mile historic route in North Carolina from milepost ...