North Carolina - Blue Ridge Parkway - North Carolina

Description: The parkway provides spectacular mountain and valley vistas, quiet pastoral scenes, sparkling waterfalls, and colorful flowers and foliage displays as it extends through the Blue Ridge, Black, Craggy, Great Balsam, and Plott Balsam Mountains. Travel above timberline or into hollows. Wind along Grandfather Mountain, the highest in the Blue Ridge range and one of the oldest in the world.

Time to Allow: 2-3 days, depending on the time of year and weather conditions.

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"The National Scenic Byways Program recognizes highways that are outstanding examples of our nation's beauty, history, culture, and recreational experience by designating them as All-American Roads and National Scenic Byways. The roads being featured were designated by the Secretary of Transportation from nominations submitted by the states and federal land management agencies. These designations provide a compass for people from all over the world to explore America's treasured open roads."