Scenic byways in North Carolina
Blue Ridge Parkway
All-American Road The North Carolina stretch (251 mi) of a 466 mi all-american road that also runs through Virginia.
About the Blue Ridge Parkway
The Parkway provides spectacular mountain and valley vistas, quiet pastoral scenes, sparkling waterfalls and colorful flower and foliage displays as it extends through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina.
Federal Highway Administration, America's Byways's own description, in its words. Byway page on America's Byways.
Designations: Parkway, All-American Road, National Forest Scenic Byway.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 1 · 1.4 mi offTow String Horse Camp · National Park Service · 3 sites · reservable
- Mile 1 · 2.8 mi offSmokemont Campground · National Park Service · 142 sites · reservable
- Mile 1 · 3.1 mi offSmokemont Group Camp · National Park Service · 3 sites · reservable
- Mile 9 · 3.4 mi offBalsam Mountain Campground · National Park Service · 43 sites · reservable
- Mile 9 · 3.4 mi offBalsam Mt. Campground · National Park Service · 43 sites
- Mile 39 · 2.4 mi offSunburst · Forest Service · 10 sites · reservable
- Mile 43 · 3.0 mi offBalsam Lake Lodge · Forest Service · 1 sites · reservable
- Mile 51 · 1.4 mi offCove Creek Lower Group Camp · Forest Service · 1 sites · reservable
- Mile 51 · 1.4 mi offCove Creek Upper Group Camp · Forest Service · 1 sites · reservable
- Mile 51 · 2.6 mi offCove Creek Group Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 53 · 0.9 mi offHeadwaters Roadside Campsites · Forest Service
- Mile 59 · 1.5 mi offWolf Ford Horse Camp · Forest Service · 11 sites · reservable
- Mile 60 · on the roadMount Pisgah Campground · National Park Service · 128 sites · reservable
- Mile 68 · 1.8 mi offWash Creek Horse Camp · Forest Service · 1 sites · reservable
- Mile 68 · 1.0 mi offWash Creek Roadside Campsites · Forest Service
- Mile 69 · 1.7 mi offHendersonville Reservoir Rd Roadside Campsites · Forest Service
- Mile 69 · 3.3 mi offYellow Gap Roadside Campsites · Forest Service
- Mile 69 · 2.8 mi offNorth Mills River · Forest Service · 29 sites · reservable
- Mile 71 · 0.8 mi offLake Powhatan · Forest Service · 84 sites · reservable
- Mile 71 · 0.8 mi offLake Powhatan Glamping · Forest Service · 12 sites · reservable
- Mile 112 · 2.1 mi offMount Mitchell State Park · State park · 9 sites · reservable
- Mile 117 · 3.2 mi offCurtis Creek Campground (Nc) · Forest Service · 24 sites · reservable
- Mile 120 · 1.6 mi offBlack Mountain Campground · Forest Service · 41 sites · reservable
- Mile 120 · 1.7 mi offBriar Bottom Group Campground · Forest Service · 6 sites · reservable
- Mile 126 · 2.4 mi offCarolina Hemlocks Rec Area · Forest Service · 39 sites · reservable
- Mile 151 · on the roadLinville Falls Campground · National Park Service · 66 sites · reservable
- Mile 168 · on the roadGrandfather Mountain State Park · State park · 13 sites · reservable
- Mile 171 · 0.7 mi offJohns River Road Backcountry Camping · National Park Service · 2 sites · reservable
- Mile 172 · on the roadJulian Price Campground · National Park Service · 194 sites · reservable
- Mile 223 · 2.1 mi offBasin Cove Backcountry Camping · National Park Service · 8 sites · reservable
- Mile 229 · on the roadDoughton Park Campground · National Park Service · 135 sites · reservable
- Mile 236 · 3.1 mi offStone Mountain State Park · State park · 98 sites · reservable
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
The same byway in other states
- Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia · 215 mi
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.