Blue Ridge Parkway

A Blue Ridge Parkway experience is unlike any other: a slow-paced and relaxing drive revealing stunning long-range vistas and close-up views of the rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes of the Appalachian Highlands. The Parkway meanders for 469 miles, protecting a diversity of plants and animals, and providing opportunities for enjoying all that makes this region of the country so special.

What you’ll hear

The Trailtold tour of Blue Ridge Parkway covers 96 GPS-triggered places across NC and VA, including Sharp Top, Sims Pond and Craven Gap. Pocket your phone and each story plays on its own as you arrive.

• Air Bellows Overlook
• Alligator Back Overlook
• Asheville Watershed
• Basin Cove Overlook
• Beacon Heights Trail
• Beaver Dam Gap Overlook
• Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center TRACK Trail for Kids
• Brinegar Cabin
• Browning Knob Overlook
• Buck Spring Gap Overlook
• Buck Spring Lodge
• Buck Spring Trailhead
• Bull Creek Valley Overlook
• Bullhead Mountain Overlook
• Camp Creek Overlook
• Canal Trail at James River
• Chestnut Cove Overlook
• Chestoa View Overlook
• Cold Mountain Overlook
• Cowee Mountain Overlook
• Crabtree Falls
• Cradle of Forestry Overlook
• Craggy Gardens
• Craggy Gardens CCC Shelter
• Craggy Gardens Picnic Area
• Craven Gap
• Deerlick Gap Overlook
• Devils Courthouse Overlook
• Devils Garden Overlook
• Doughton Park Picnic Area
• Fork Ridge Overlook
• Fox Hunters Paradise Overlook
• French Broad Overlook
• Frying Pan Fire Tower
• Glassmine Falls Overlook
• Grandfather Mountain View
• Granite Quarry Overlook
• Grassy Ridge Mine Overlook Trailhead
• Graveyard Fields
• Graybeard Mountain Overlook
• Green Knob Overlook
• Groundhog Mountain Picnic Area
• Haw Creek Valley Overlook
• Hefner Gap Overlook
• Heintooga Spur Road
• Humpback Rocks Mountain Farm
• Humpback Rocks Trailhead
• James River Picnic Area
• James River TRACK Trail for Kids
• Julian Price Memorial Park
• Lane Pinnacle Overlook
• Licklog Ridge Overlook
• Linn Cove Viaduct
• Looking Glass Rock Overlook
• Lost Cove Cliffs Overlook
• Mabry Mill
• Matthews Cabin
• Mills River Overlook
• Monarch Migration Wayside
• Moore Cove Falls
• Mount Mitchell
• Mount Pisgah Area
• Mount Pisgah Picnic Area
• Mount Pisgah Trailhead
• Mt. Lyn Lowry Overlook
• Museum of North Carolina Minerals Rock Garden
• North Cove Overlook
• Onion Mountain Overlook
• Overmountain Men Monument at Gillespie Gap, Milepost 331
• Peaks of Otter Picnic Area
• Pink Beds Overlook
• Plott Balsam Overlook
• Polly Wood's Ordinary
• Price Lake Picnic Area TRACK Trail for Kids
• Price Lake TRACK Trail for Kids
• Puckett Cabin
• Rattlesnake Lodge Trailhead
• Richland Balsam Overlook: Highest Point on the Parkway, Milepost 431.4
• Roanoke Mountain Picnic Area
• Roanoke River Overlook
• Rocky Knob Picnic Area
• Second Falls
• Sharp Top
• Sims Pond
• Sliding Rock
• Smart View Overlook
• Smart View Recreation Area
• Tanbark Ridge Overlook
• Tanbark Ridge Tunnel
• The Loops Overlook
• Thunder Ridge Overlook
• Trail Cabin at Smart View Recreation Area
• View Black Mountain Overlook
• Waterrock Knob Viewpoint and Trail
• Wilson Creek Valley Overlook
• Yankee Horse Ridge Overlook