Blue Ridge Parkway north end

After leaving Shenandoah National Park, we continued south for a few miles on the northern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

This park, barely wider than the highway, is 469 miles long, between Shenandoah National Park in Virginia at the north end and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina at the south end. We certainly didn’t have time to drive the whole way, but we went to the northernmost visitor center before turning around. We’ll probably visit the southernmost visitor center in the parkway in a few weeks time.

Visitor center:

Jenn had a nice long chat with the volunteer there: