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id: "2450"
name: Blue Ridge Parkway - North Carolina
distance: "252"
duration: Eight hours to drive or two to three days to experience the byway
description: The Parkway in North Carolina provides spectacular mountain and valley vistas, sparkling waterfalls, and colorful flower and foliage displays throughout the Blue Ridge, Black, Craggy, Great Balsam, and Plott Balsam Mountains. Wind along Grandfather Mountain, the highest in the Blue Ridge range and among the oldest in the world.
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attractions:
  - url: https://www.nps.gov/appa/index.htm
    name: Appalachian National Scenic Trail
  - url: https://www.blueridgeparkway.org/
    name: Blue Ridge Parkway
  - url: https://grandfather.com/
    name: Grandfather Mountain
  - url: https://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm
    name: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  - url: https://www.fs.usda.gov/nfsnc
    name: Nantahala, Pisgah, Croatan and Uwharrie National Forests.
  - url: https://www.nps.gov/blri/index.htm
    name: NPS - Blue Ridge Parkway
  - url: https://www.nps.gov/ovvi/index.htm
    name: Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail
designations:
  - All-American Road
  - National Parkway
  - North Carolina State Scenic Byway
states:
  - NC
part of:
  - "2280"
ll:
  - -83.30082137946098
  - 35.50556200000011
bounds:
  - - -83.30082137946098
    - 35.29641000000004
  - - -80.90843999999993
    - 36.56211100000007
books: "979-8886470185"

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The Parkway in North Carolina provides spectacular mountain and valley vistas, sparkling waterfalls, and colorful flower and foliage displays throughout the Blue Ridge, Black, Craggy, Great Balsam, and Plott Balsam Mountains. Wind along Grandfather Mountain, the highest in the Blue Ridge range and among the oldest in the world.