We will make any excuse to go take a drive on a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway ..... anytime. We drove over to Waynesville to do some business with Verizon..... well, actually, there are probably two dozen Verizon stores closer, but if we went to Waynesville, we could take the Parkway for a portion of the trip. So we did. Ended up traveling about 47 miles on it. From the "southern (west)" end of it at Cherokee, back to Pisgah Mountain.
The Parkway is so amazing. When you head up the mountains toward the Parkway, you are typically about elevation 3,000 ft., more or less, and it is a steady climb up to the ridgeline which varies, but in this area is around 5 to 6,000 ft. Then you just meander along the tippy-tops of the mountains, with views out into the valleys on both sides of the mountains. And the sunlight and sky conditions are always changing the colors.
And waterfalls!!!! They are everywhere, with easy hiking trails to a lot of them.
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