Blue Ridge Parkway
With more than 10 million annual visitors, Blue Ridge Parkway is a pretty cool tourist destination; it offers a gorgeous 469 miles of spectacular scenic beauty that stretches between Virginia and North Carolina. The distinctive feature of the park is that you drive through it absorbing the serenity around it as you go. The rugged mountains and virgin landscapes astonish the eye. The ‘things to do’ while driving through here include: Dining, shopping, golfing, camping, hiking, biking, fishing, swimming, wildlife watching and more. The important historical places covered in the park are Hickory Ridge Homestead, The Natural Bridge, Daniel Boone Native Gardens, Historic Gertrude Smith House, Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, National D-Day Memorial, New Market Battlefield State Historical Park, Stonewall Jackson House and Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. The most interesting part about this place is the way it carries the culture forward. In its culture heritage program, the park carries forward the Crafts Heritage, Cherokee Cultural Heritage, Music Heritage and the Traditional Appalachian Heritage.
