![]() In 10 minutes he had coasted down the 4.5 miles back to our campground, and I couldn’t even catch him in the car after snapping the picture! There’s the crazy biker… Since I’m no action photographer, the shot below is the best I could get as he whizzed by with a huge smile on his face. ![]() I dropped him off at the top and he waited while I located a nice sharp turn halfway down from which to witness the carnage. So, bright and early the next morning he had his bike on the car, and back up the hill we went anyway. That didn’t go over very well, so I patiently reminded him that our medical coverage isn’t quite as “comprehensive” as it used to be. Of course, I tried to shut down his excitement by telling him it’s too dangerous and that he’s getting too old for that kind of crap. He blurted out that it would really be fun to coast down this curvy road on his bike. Blue Ridge Parkwayĭriving out of our campsite toward our first trailhead, Steve noted an opportunity when we climbed the very curvy and steep grade up Highway 151 towards the Blue Ridge Parkway access. ![]() The Blue Ridge Parkway begins at Mile 0 in Shenandoah National Park, VA and goes all the way down to Mile 469 at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. This time we explored the southern end of the parkway, marked number 3 below. On the image below, numbers 1 and 2 (clicking on the numbers takes you to the related post) mark the sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway we explored last year. Steve’s review of Stony Fork Creek RV Park is here. The RV park was really quaint, with only six sites and the added bonus of a creek running right through it! We will miss the sounds of that water running by the back of the rig as we enjoyed our fires and at bedtime. We were thrilled when we learned that our home base in Candler, Western NC was only 4.5 miles from the access road to the Blue Ridge Parkway. After being tourists in Asheville for a couple of days, we were back to what delights us the most – submerging ourselves into nature through our hiking – this time in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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