Sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway at times shut down for maintenance. During my most recent trip, a portion traversing the Virginia ... Trail runs for 13.5 miles along the flank of Grandfather ...

Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains cradle ... including the Bedford Museum & Genealogical Library. Nestled in Virginia's Roanoke Region, America's East Coast Mountain Biking Capital, Rocky Mount ...

Extending more than 450 miles between Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and Great Smoky Mountains National ... federal lands within the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and Blue Ridge Parkway.

including the counties of Bedford, Amherst and Nelson, and the city of Lynchburg. Kevin Brandt, Virginia development director of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the ...