Blue Ridge Parkway History
You can imagine her, can't you? A 65-year-old woman, visiting from Ohio, getting up on a spring morning, deciding to take a hike. She puts a few items in her fanny pack, makes sure she's got her camera, sets out to enjoy a day in the mountains. She's on vacation, out for a little exercise on no particular stretch of trail, just a section of the Mountains-to-Sea running along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville.
“In bitter weather, the leaves of rhododendrons roll into thin black cigars of misery and present a singularly depressing appearance. There is no need for a thermometer to judge the temperature if these particular plants are in sight.”
“A small amount of dry masonry guard wall has been built on three sections. Some of this was placed on fills where the shoulders were too narrow and, although built up at the time the guard wall was constructed, has since required a considerable amou...
Stonemasons , engineers, landscape architects, surveyors and so many others were
part of the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway, between 1935 and 1987, milepost 1 to milepost 469, Cumberland Knob groundbreaking to Linn Cove Viaduct completion.
I made two major life decisions in the summer of 1975, both of them related to my career and my dedication to the Blue Ridge Parkway. These were, in fact, decisions that today make me part of the parkway community celebrating our anniversary this yea...
The Fool in the Woods, aka Blue Ridge Country editor in chief Kurt Rheinheimer, is back with more great woodland information and secrets, this time reporting on how Virginia's Devil's Marbleyard was formed.
See Kurt's Hikes Blog.
