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

96 places to explore in this park.

• 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