Blue Ridge Parkway

One of the US's most visited national parks, the Blue Ridge Parkway forms a 469-mile corridor of road, trails, and campgrounds through the Virginia and North Carolina high country.  Its width varies from just 500 feet near towns and cities to larger, remoter tracts containing waterfalls, heath balds, rivers, virgin forests, high rocky summits, and historic buildings and exhibits.  Although compromised in many sections by encroaching development, the road continues to preserve an impressive smorgasbord of southern Appalachian scenery and culture. 

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Licklog Valley, Blue Ridge Parkway, NC, 2000

Boone Fork, Price Park, NC, 1998

Catawba rhododendron, Craggy Gardens heath bald, NC, 1999

Twilight, Graveyard Fields, Blue Ridge Parkway, NC, 1998

Rough Ridge, Tanawha Trail, Grandfather Mountain area, NC, 1997

Large-flowering trillium along Mountains-to-Sea Trail, Bull Gap, NC, 1999

Looking toward Linville Gorge from the Pinnacle, NC, 1996

Jack o'lantern fungi, Deep Gap, NC, 1997
Forest, Grandmother Mountain, NC, 1997 Ridge below Waterrock Knob, Blue Ridge Parkway, NC, 1999 Red maple leaves, Beacon Heights Trail, NC, 1998 Dawn on the Pinnacle, NC, 2002
Sunrise, Doughton Park, NC, 2000 Along Mountains-to-Sea Trail, Bull Gap, NC, 1998 Crabtree Falls, NC, 1997 Heath bald along Mountains-to-Sea Trail near Glassmine Falls overlook, NC, 1998

 

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