Skyline Drive & the Blue Ridge
Parkway are to roads on the east coast that were made for a motorcycle. From the
moment you enter Skyline Drive at the northern entrance to the Shenandoah
National Park it will take you over.
Around every turn and every hill for the next 100 plus miles of non stop riding (no lights or stop signs). Here you will some of the beauty of Americas great by ways.
As you come to a stop sign at the
end of Skyline Drive you come to the next sign Entering the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Void of all traffic you continue down the Parkway with its two line roadway (a
north bound and south bound lines). As you get farther south the road just get
better and better. The Blue Ridge Parkway also has no stop signs along the way.
There
are plenty of place to stop along the way to take pictures. Around every turn
the road in front of you seem to never end. The Parkway in some 450 miles long
and you wish it will never end. Continuing south you will past old mills that
are open to the public to stop in and see.
Still moving south you come to a
turn off to Mt. Mitchell State Park.
Mt. Mitchell
stands 6684 feet above sea level making
it
the highest point east of the Mighty Mississippi. Still going south you past
thru Asheville, N.C. and continue south where the parkway come to an end in
Cherokee, N.C. home to the Cherokee Indian Nation. The Blue Ridge Parkway is
about 475 miles start to finish. All in all a ride that one will never
forget. Story by Ray
S.“Big Bird”