Trips for Blue Ridge Parkway

8/16/09 - 8 days prior to start. All hotel reservations are confirmed with exception of possible 9/2 stay someplace on the way back to south Jersey. Biltmore Estate tickets also reserved for Day 5, but Monticello, Dixie Stampede, Cherokee and …

Just trying to finish last minute details before we leave and testing out the yahoo journal. Ok, so we decided to skip Brooklyn and we went straight to DC... The ride done was fine, we didn't leave MA till about 4:30 - got over the GW Bridge …

Mobile, Alabama It's now 1:30 am on Saturday, August 25, 2007. We just arrived Mobile. Our trip originally was going to start on the 25th. However, we decided to leave Beaumont, Texas today and drive this far. We left Beaumont about 6:40 pm …

Website: http://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/trip-planner.htm Activities: http://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/upload/2007%20trip-planner%20b.pdf Laurel falls: 80-ft high, 2.6-mi roundtrip hike, moderate Hen Wallow falls: 90-ft high, 4.4-mi …

By Adam Goodheart The quiet splendor and patchwork history of the popular national park offer lessons in how humanity can coexist with nature.Surely these are, if nothing else, the most perfectly named mountains in the world. "Great Smoky Mountai …

Day 1 After a 12 hour trip to Gatlinburg with 3 children and my husband we were so happy when the mountains came into view. We entered The Great Smokey Mountain Park and we were truely speechless. At the end of the park we entered Gatlinburg …

The third Saturday in October. If you are from the south, you probably know what this means. If not, let me explain. The third Saturday in October is the day every year where the University of Tennessee Volunteers and the University of Alabama Cr …

Last time we visited Asheville and the Smoky Mountains, Stella was a little jumping bean of about 8 weeks old- I was pregnant! We return with Stella at 14 months and expect to have a very different type of trip this time around. As an energetic …

OVERVIEW OF THE PARKWAY NEAR ASHEVILLE You may take the Blue Ridge Parkway north or south from Asheville, and in either direction you will quickly climb the ridge and reach elevations of 5,000+. However, the higher stretches of the parkway …