Blue Ridge Parkway \u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe Parkway is a 469 mile drive “revealing stunning long-range vistas and close-up views of the rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes of the Appalachian Highlands.” The Blue Ridge Parkway is in both Virginia and North Carolina.
\nHere is their website.<\/a> Phone 828-348-3400 \u00a0 Recorded Park Information line 828-298-0398
\nParkway Visitor Center<\/a>\u00a0in Asheville, North Carolina\u00a0 828-298-5330 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Map<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Real time open\/close road status map<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0– \u00a0Accessibility<\/a><\/p>\n

The Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia\u00a0
\n<\/a>Peaks of Otter<\/a>
\n <\/a> Abbot Lake Trail<\/a> \u00a0One mile loop around the lake “…through a woodland forest and open field.
\nTrails in North Carolina<\/a>\u00a0 This site gives mileage and a rating of easy, moderate or strenuous and links to trail maps. \u00a0I can not tell just how easy is “easy” and there is no indication whether there might be obstacles such as stairs.
\nRocky Knob <\/a>
\n<\/a>?<\/strong> Rocky Knob Picnic area trail “… is an easy 1-mile loop and offers a pleasant walk through a mature forest of large oaks, ashes, hickories, Fraser magnolias, hemlocks, and other native trees and shrubs.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blue Ridge Parkway \u00a0 The Parkway is a 469 mile drive “revealing stunning long-range vistas and close-up views of the rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes of the Appalachian Highlands.” The Blue Ridge Parkway is in both Virginia and North Carolina. Here is their website. Phone 828-348-3400 \u00a0 Recorded Park Information line 828-298-0398 Parkway Visitor Center\u00a0in … Continue reading Blue Ridge Parkway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-federal","category-virginia-federal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7852,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/7852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}