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Explore Park is a 1,100-acre (450 ha) passive recreation facility operated by the Roanoke County Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. The park is located at milepost 115 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Roanoke County, Virginia, with 700 acres (280 ha) of the park lying in Roanoke County and 400 acres (160 ha) in adjacent Bedford County. [1]
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty.The parkway, which is the longest linear park in the U.S., [3] runs for 469 miles (755 km) through 29 counties in Virginia and North Carolina, linking Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The Parkway is the most-visited site in the National Park Service and snakes the Blue Ridge Mountains for 469 miles from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smokies in Cherokee.
The park is open year-round and sees 225,000 people each year being the most visited recreational place on the Blue Ridge Parkway [7] and second in visitors after the Folk Art Center that sees 250,000 visitors. [8] Together with the Julian Price Memorial Park, it is the largest developed area set aside for public recreation on the Blue Ridge ...
This includes the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center near Asheville at milepost 384 and the Folk Art Center at milepost 384. Trails within this stretch will also reopen.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is now open from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia through mile marker 200.1, about 17 miles from the North Carolina state line.. Visitors can now access the northbound ...
The Blue Ridge Music Center is a music venue, museum, and visitor center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Galax, Virginia. The center celebrates the living musical heritage of the surrounding mountains and interprets its significance within the larger landscape of American music and culture through concerts, exhibits, and programs. The site is a ...
Today, Oct. 30, the @NatlParkService restored access to nearly 55 miles of the Parkway from: Milepost 411.8 to 421, from US 276 to Black Balsam. Milepost 423.2 to 469, from NC 215 to US 441 in ...