Blue Ridge Parkway Road Trips : Lonely Planet

You won't find one stoplight on the entire Blue Ridge Parkway, which traverses the southern Appalachians from Virginia's Shenandoah National Park at Mile 0 to North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Mile 469.

Commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a Great Depression-era publicworks project, it's one of America's most classic drives. North Carolina's piece of the parkway twists and turns for 421 kilometres of killer mountain vistas.