Graham Averill is Outside magazine’s national-parks columnist. He spends a lot of time on the Blue Ridge Parkway, usually on his road bike, sweating uphill.

In the west, the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains are known for the beautiful ... Travel + Leisure magazine may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.

Extending more than 450 miles between Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, the Blue Ridge Parkway is a trip through the history of the Blue Ridge ...