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RoyB
Mar 22, 2017Explorer II
Need to download the Blue Ridge trail map PDF. It shows all of the camp grounds and mile posts etc... There is a camp ground and sometimes a way station about every 50 miles or so... The Way Station will have fuel and a nice resturant...
The camp grounds of course where originally designed for Tent Camping so you find them some what small in places... I have seen motorhomes in them. Of course you can get off the parkway and visit some close by camp grounds along the I81 corridor. Be careful where you pick to get off the parkway and some of those roads are very winding and share turns right at the top. I would only get on and off at the major roadways crossing the parkway...
One place is must do camping spot being Sherando Lake camp ground near the I64 road...
Also expect to have to get off the parkway to go around some large towns then get on the parkway again...
The MAX speed is not very high so expect a long journey haha... Also at dusk you may get run over by a herd of deer along the way... Don't get in any hurry... There is always alot of motorcycle traffic on the parkway - even some bicycles as well...
We have done the Tent camping with just our truck a couple of times and of late have made a couple of runs with our OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer from Virginia to TN at Gatlinburg.
Roy Ken
The camp grounds of course where originally designed for Tent Camping so you find them some what small in places... I have seen motorhomes in them. Of course you can get off the parkway and visit some close by camp grounds along the I81 corridor. Be careful where you pick to get off the parkway and some of those roads are very winding and share turns right at the top. I would only get on and off at the major roadways crossing the parkway...
One place is must do camping spot being Sherando Lake camp ground near the I64 road...
Also expect to have to get off the parkway to go around some large towns then get on the parkway again...
The MAX speed is not very high so expect a long journey haha... Also at dusk you may get run over by a herd of deer along the way... Don't get in any hurry... There is always alot of motorcycle traffic on the parkway - even some bicycles as well...
We have done the Tent camping with just our truck a couple of times and of late have made a couple of runs with our OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer from Virginia to TN at Gatlinburg.
Roy Ken
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