The Blue Ridge Parkway is no ordinary road. A scenic highway connecting Shenandoah National Park and the Skyline Drive in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, “America’s favorite Drive” winds its way through 469 miles of Grand Mountains and seemingly endless vistas and valleys.
The view? Absolutely spectacular!
Check out our photos from driving the Blue Ridge Parkway. For more details on booking your own trip, check out blueridgemountainstravelguide.com
The Blue Ridge Parkway
The Blue Ridge Mountains
The Blue Ridge Mountains
The best way to capture steady video footage while driving!
Various lookouts along the Blue Ridge Parkway offer spectacular views.
On a clear day, the sky is half the view!
Peace and Solitude. Blue Ridge Mountains.
They don’t call it the Great Smoky Mountains for nothing!
Split rail fences line part of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
View from the Blue Ridge Parkway
Overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains
View from the Blue Ridge Parkway
Photographing the Blue Ridge Mountains
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I love the Blue Ridge Parkway…was planning on making it there soon myself :)
Having lived in VA for five years I have to admit the Blue Ridge Parkway was always an available weekend adventure with gorgeous trails and great biodiversity. Thank you Megan! =)
My sister lives near the Blue Mountain Pkwy and we love taking drives-it’s really gorgeous during sunset! :)
Love the Blue Ridge Parkway! So beautiful and serene. I always recommend taking it mid-week though as the Saturday and Sunday traffic can spoil the drive.
very cool! i like the foggy picture the most
This looks like a spectacular roadtrip location. Make sure the breaks are good on a rental care to be safe!
Very beautiful. I’ve been to the Smoky Mountains, and have driven from Tennessee north to the D.C. area via interstate and it’s such a beautiful area. But I’ve never made this drive.
really gorgeous during sunset!
Beautiful scenery, thanks for sharing these photos. I love the variety you’ve captured here!
One of my favorite places!
I traveled along the Blue Ridge Parkway this past fall. The colours were phenomenal! Arguably one of the most beautiful drives! We camped on a mountain on the parkway and it had the most amazing sunsets!
Check out my road trip series: http://www.stepstofollow.net/the-great-smoky-mountains-road-trip-day-one-driving-through-the-appalachians/
thanks,
Lexie