Blue Ridge Parkway
All-American Road The Virginia stretch (215 mi) of a 466 mi all-american road that also runs through North Carolina.
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 13 · 1.7 mi offSherando Lake Group Camp · Forest Service · 5 sites · reservable
- Mile 13 · 1.8 mi offSherando Lake Recreation Area Family Camping · Forest Service · 65 sites · reservable
- Mile 17 · 1.8 mi offSherando Lake Group Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 44 · 1.6 mi offOronoco Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 47 · 3.1 mi offGlen Maury Park Campground · City, county or regional park · 155 sites
- Mile 60 · on the roadOtter Creek Campground · National Park Service · 69 sites · reservable
- Mile 74 · 1.7 mi offHopper Creek Group Camp · Forest Service · 1 sites · reservable
- Mile 74 · 3.3 mi offCave Mountain Lake Family Camp · Forest Service · 40 sites · reservable
- Mile 74 · 3.3 mi offCave Mountain Lake Group Camp · Forest Service · 1 sites · reservable
- Mile 80 · 3.8 mi offNorth Creek · Forest Service · 4 sites · reservable
- Mile 85 · on the roadPeaks of Otter Campground · National Park Service · 143 sites · reservable
- Mile 114 · 1.2 mi offBlue Ridge Campground · City, county or regional park · 12 sites · reservable
- Mile 114 · 1.2 mi offDon's Cab-Inns Campground · City, county or regional park · reservable
- Mile 114 · 1.2 mi offExplore Park Campgrounds · City, county or regional park
- Mile 166 · on the roadRocky Knob Campground · National Park Service · 110 sites · reservable
- Mile 167 · 0.7 mi offRock Castle Gorge Backcountry Camping · National Park Service · 8 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 North Carolina · 251 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.