Construction Began Here, N.C. Leg Begins September 11, 1935 at Mile 216.9 From The Way We Lived in North Carolina Cumberland © 2003 The University of North Carolina Press Sparta Knob The Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina Map © North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources All rights reserved. 21 Jefferson Air The Parkway Covers 469 Miles of Scenic Highway along the Crests of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Bellows Gap Dobson Linking Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina Horse Gap 18 16 SECTIONS OPENED TO THE PUBLIC: Construction Completed Here with Deep Gap ver Opening of Linn Cove Viaduct, in Ri Boone 421 adk 1930s 1940s 1987 Y HER T A AIN BLOWING ROCK Between... Between... Holloway Wilkesboro • Cumberland Knoband Deep Gap • Beacon Heightsand McKinney Gap GRANDFMOUNT Mtn. Rd. Beacon 321 77 • McKinney Gapand Gooch Gap • Gooch Gapand Balsam Gap Linville Bakersville Heights • Soco Gapand Big Witch Gap PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST 1950s 1960s Linville Falls Burnsville Between... Between... Altapass 221 Lenoir Taylorsville • Deep Gapand U.S. Hwy. 321 • U.S. Hwy. 321and Holloway Mtn. Rd. F Little Switzerland McKinney Gap • Balsam Gapand Swannanoa River • Swannanoa Riverand Flat Laurel Gap re n Walnut • Flat Laurel Gapand Reinhart Gap • Reinhart Gapand Soco Gap ch Gooch Gap ba River B ataw • Big Witch Gapand Oconaluftee r MT. MITCHELL C oa Statesville d Balsam Gap Busick 80 Hickory R Weaverville iv Big Laurel 40 1980s e Gap Marion Morganton r Bull Gap Bee Tree Gap Newton Between... 40 • Holloway Mtn. Rd. and ASHEVILLE Beacon Heights Swannanoa River LAKE Big Witch NORMAN Gap The Blue Ridge Parkway Oconaluftee 74 GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS 19 French Broad River NATIONAL PARK Waynesville Cherokee Soco Gap Lincolnton Bryson City Ferrin Knob #3 Balsam Gap Beaver Dam Gap 276 Sylva 74 Flat Laurel Gap Rutherfordton Wagon Road Gap Hendersonville Reinhart Gap 215 PISGAH NATIONAL Shelby FOREST Gastonia Robbinsville Beech Gap Yellowstone Falls 26 Columbus NANTAHALA NATIONAL FOREST Brevard CHARLOTTE Franklin Murphy MAP BY MARK ANDERSON MOORE Hayesville.