Blue Ridge Parkway - Early April
Been north from the SE up to Michigan multiple times. Usually take I-75 if on a schedule. Otherwise, we've swung east and hit the Smokey Mountains NP. Looking for something new, we are looking at t...
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Hokiehall wrote:valhalla360 wrote:Hokiehall wrote:
There is a section of the parkway in Virginia that is closed south of Roanoke from mile post 121.4 - 135.9 at Adney Gap due to a slope failure from heavy rains. A detour is in place.
Luckily we hit that driving just the truck...the "detrour" was a sign about 200ft before the closed gate with no drive or other means to turn around. With the trailer, we would have had to back up quite a ways to the next drive where we could turn around.
Another section at Roanoke will be closed to replace a bridge over the Roanoke River at MP 112. This will be within a few weeks and will last at least a year.
We had stopped in the visitor center at Asheville and got the closures at the beginning of the trip (there are a few), so we purposely avoided it with the trailer but we were just out meandering with the truck not paying too much attention when we came across it...the signing for this closure was borderline negligent (I develop maintenance of traffic plans as part of my job).
