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Thursday, July 11, 2013

French Broad River to Craggy Gardens - Blue Ridge Parkway


A late June day trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina provided some beautiful views before the fog and rain shortened our trip.  The parkway is a scenic 469 mile link between Shenandoah National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  We traversed about 65 miles of the parkway from NC 191 just south of the French Broad River to NC 226 at Gillespie Gap.

View upstream from the French Broad River bridge toward Ball Mountain

View downstream from the French Broad River bridge

Visitor Center and Headquarters

Interior of the Visitor Center


Haw Creek Valley

Tanbark Ridge

The parkway from the Bull Creek Valley overlook

Bull Creek Valley

Lane Pinnacle

View northwest from the Craggy Gardens visitor center

Another view of the ridges northwest of the Craggy Gardens visitor center


The fog moves in at Craggy Gardens

A break in the fog provided a magnificent view along the road

View from Three Knobs overlook

The parkway website is http://www.nps.gov/blri/index.htm.

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