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Blue Ridge Parkway Road Trips 1 ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY ROAD TRIPS Amy C Balfour, Virginia Maxwell, Regis St Louis, Greg Ward HOW TO USE THIS BOOK Symbols In This Book Reviews KTop Tips Food & In the Destinations section: Drink All reviews are ordered in our authors’ Link preference, starting with their most Your Trips Outdoors preferred option. Additionally: Tips from Sights are arranged in the geographic Essential Locals Photo order that we suggest you visit them and, within this order, by author preference. Trip Walking Detour Tour Eating and Sleeping reviews are ordered by price range (budget, midrange, top end) and, History & within these ranges, by author preference. Culture 5 Eating Family 4 Sleeping Map Legend Routes Trips Trip Route Trip Numbers 1 Sights 4 Sleeping Trip Detour Linked Trip Trip Stop r Beaches 5 Eating Walk Route Tollway Walking tour 2 Activities 6 Drinking Freeway Primary Trip Detour C Courses 3 Entertainment Secondary Tertiary Population T Tours 7 Shopping Lane Capital (National) Unsealed Road Capital z Festivals Information & Plaza/Mall (State/Province) & Events 8 Transportation Steps City/Large Town Tunnel Town/Village Pedestrian Overpass Areas Walk Track/Path Beach These symbols and abbreviations give Cemetery vital information for each listing: Boundaries (Christian) International Cemetery (Other) State/Province Park % Telephone # Pet-friendly Cliff Forest number g Reservation Bus h Hydrography Urban Area Opening hours f Ferry River/Creek Sportsground p Parking j Tram Intermittent River n Nonsmoking Swamp/Mangrove Transport d Train a Canal Airport Air-conditioning apt apartments Water BART station i Internet access Dry/Salt/ Boston T station d double rooms W Intermittent Lake Cable Car/ Wi-fi access dm dorm beds Glacier Funicular s Swimming pool Metro/Muni station q quad rooms v Route Markers Parking Vegetarian r rooms selection US National Hwy Subway station s single rooms US Interstate Hwy Train/Railway E English-language State Hwy Tram menu ste suites Underground station c Family-friendly tr triple rooms Note: Not all symbols displayed above appear on the maps in this book tw twin rooms CONTENTS PLAN YOUR TRIP DESTINATIONS Welcome to the Virginia ................................54 Blue Ridge Parkway ........................ 5 Richmond.............................55 Blue Ridge Parkway Map ................ 6 Charlottesville .......................62 Blue Ridge Parkway’s Highlights ......................................... 8 Shenandoah National Park .......66 69 City Guide ........................................10 Staunton .............................. Lexington .............................71 Need to Know ..................................12 Roanoke ...............................75 Floyd ...................................77 ROAD TRIPS Galax ..................................78 Abingdon .............................79 North Carolina .......................82 Skyline High Country .........................83 1 Drive 3 Days ..........17 Asheville ..............................86 Blue Ridge 2 Parkway: Cherokee ..............................95 Virginia 3 Days ......... 25 Brevard ................................96 Crooked Pisgah National Forest ............97 3 Road 3–4 Days ..... 33 Bryson City ...........................98 Blue Ridge Nantahala National Forest ........99 4 Parkway: North Carolina 5 Days ......... 43 Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...................... 100 Charlotte ............................ 112 Winston-Salem .................... 116 ROAD TRIP ESSENTIALS ....118 Destinations Virginia (p54) Natural beauty, history, mountain music, wineries and craft breweries, Virginia’s got it all. North Carolina (p82) During the day wear yourself out with the many out- door adventures on offer, then relax with a beautiful meal and a craft beer at night. North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway ANTHONY HEFLIN / SHUTTERSTOCK © ©Lone- ly Planet Publications Pty Ltd SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK We love to hear from travelers – your comments help make our books better. We read every word, and we guarantee that BEHIND your feedback goes straight to the authors. Visit lonelyplanet. com/contact to submit your updates and suggestions. THE Note: We may edit, reproduce and incorporate your comments in Lonely Planet products such as guidebooks, SCENES websites and digital products, so let us know if you don't want your comments reproduced or your name acknowledged. For a copy of our privacy policy visit lonelyplanet.com/privacy. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS BOOK Climate map data adapted from Peel MC, Finlayson This 1st edition of Blue Ridge Parkway Road Trips BL & McMahon TA (2007) ‘Updated World Map was researched and written by Amy C Balfour, of the Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification’, Virginia Maxwell, Regis St Louis and Greg Ward. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11, 163344. This guidebook was produced by the following: Cover photographs: Front: view from Waterrock Destination Editor Trisha Ping Knob, Blue Ridge Parkway, NaturalStock/ Barbara Delissen Shutterstock ©; Back: Mabry Mill, Crooked Road, Product Editor anthony heflin/Shutterstock © Cartographer Valentina Kremenchutskaya Regional Senior Cartographer Alison Lyall Senior Product Editor Vicky Smith Book Designers Fergal Condon, Mazzy Prinsep Assisting Editors Andrew Bain, James Bainbridge, Carly Hall Cover Researcher Naomi Parker Thanks to Andrea Dobbin, Anne Mason, Wibowo Rusli, Angela Tinson OUR STORY A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies. Lonely Planet was born. Today, Lonely Planet has offices in Franklin, London, Melbourne, Oakland, Dublin, Beijing and Delhi, with more than 600 staff and writers. We share Tony’s belief that ‘a great guidebook should do three things: inform, educate and amuse’. 123 ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd INDEX Blowing Rock 45-6, 85-6 campgrounds 28, 75 A Blue Ridge Highlands 75-81 canoeing 58, 72, 84, 110, 112 Abingdon 40, 79-81 Blue Ridge Music Center 39 car insurance 118 Abrams Falls 106-7 Blue Ridge Parkway, see car rental 12, 119-20 accommodation 13 also individual locations Carter Family Fold 40-1 Alum Cave Bluffs 104-5 construction 46 Cataloochee Valley 107-9 Appalachian Trail 71 planner 31 cell phones 12 Asheville 9, 11, 49, 86-95, Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Charlies Bunion 103 87, 89 Center 49 Charlotte 112-16, 114 accommodation 11, 89-91 Boone 45, 83-5 Charlottesville 62-5, 64 drinking & nightlife 92-4 Brevard 96-7 Chateau Morrisette 78 entertainment 94 breweries Cherokee 95-6 festivals & events 88 Abingdon 81 Cherokee National Forest 113 food 11, 91-2 Asheville 88, 92-3, 94 Chimney Rock Park 50 shopping 94-5 Blowing Rock 86 climate 12 sights 86-8 Brevard 97 Cold Mountain 50 tourist information 95 Bryson City 99 costs 13 tours 88 Charlotte 115 Cradle of Forestry in America travel to/from 95 Charlottesville 65 98 travel within 11 Galax 78 Crooked Road 33-41 Richmond 61 cycling B Roanoke 77 Abingdon 79-80 Staunton 71 Brevard 96-7 barbecue 40 Winston-Salem 117 Bryson City 98 Bearfence Mountain 23 Bristol 41 Cades Cove 107 Bedford 30 Bristol Motor Speedway 41 Charlotte 112 beer 93, see also breweries Bryson City 98-9 Knoxville 110 Asheville Ale Trail 93 business hours 13 Mount Rogers National Richmond Beer Trail 61 Recreation Area 79-80 Benton Falls 113 Nantahala National Big Meadows 23, 66 C Forest 100 Biltmore Estate 49-50 Cades Cove 105-7 Tsali Recreation Area Calloway Peak 47 99-100 campervan rental 120 000 Map pages 124 Floydfest 77 High Creek 39 D Mountain Dance & Folk highlights 8-9 Dark Hollow Falls 23 Festival 88 hiking Dinosaur Kingdom II 30 Old Fiddlers’ Convention 39 Appalachian Trail 71 Dinosaur Land 19 Smoke on the Mountain Bearfence Mountain 23 Dirty Dancing 76 Barbecue Brevard 96-7 Championship 40 Doc Watson 45 Bryson City 98 Fisher Peak 39 Dollywood 41, 109 Cades Cove 107 Fishers Gap Overlook 22 ‘Drama of Creation’ light Cataloochee Valley 108-9 INDEX Flat Top Trail 29 show 28 Charlotte 112 Floyd 36, 77-8 driving 118-22 Cherokee National D-H car rental 12, 119-20 Floyd Country Store 78 Forest 113 documents 118 Foggy Mountain Gem Mine 45 Fisher Peak 39 driver’s license 118 Folk Art Center 48 Grandfather Mountain 47 fuel 12, 122 food 13 Great Smoky Mountains insurance 118 Front Royal 18-19 National Park 101 maps 120 Frontier Culture Museum Harry F Byrd Visitor Center 27, 69 parking 122 23 fuel 12, 122 road distances 121 Hawksbill 22 road rules 121-2 High Creek 39 safety 120-1, 122 G James River 28-9 websites 119 Galax 39-40, 78-9 Lewis Mountain 23 drunk driving 121 Garden Maze 22 Linville Falls 47 gas 12, 122 Mathews Arm 20 E Gatlinburg 96 McAfee Knob 29 Gatlinburg Trail 105 Moses H Cone Memorial elk 108 Grandfather Mountain 46-7 Park 46 Elk Run Trail 29 Great Smoky Mountains Mount Rogers National Elkwallow Wayside 20 National Park 51, 100-11, Recreation Area 79-80 emergencies 12 102-3 Mt Mitchell State Park 48 Erwin’s View Trail 47 accommodation 109-11 Mt Pisgah 50 events, see festivals & events food 111 Newfound Gap Road 101, sights 101-9 102, 103, 104-5 F tourist offices 111 Peaks of Otter 29 Roan Mountain State Fairy Stone State Park 38 travel to/from 111 Park 48 fall foliage 36 Groundhog Mountain 38-9 Rocky Knob 36 Fallingwater
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