Blueridge Parkway questions
Blueridge Parkway questions Planing a trip on the Blueridge Parkway and my cousin told me it is kind of narrow. My question is there any problem pulling a fifth wheeler on there? Anyone been there,...
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holstein13 wrote:
I had the brilliant idea of driving my 31 ft MH (previous coach) from Asheville to Virginia a few years ago. Northeast of Asheville, the tunnels were much taller and I had no problems staying safely in my lane but, oh my, what a slow painful ride it was. I was well below the speed limit annoying everyone behind me and couldn't enjoy the parkway at all because I was focused on steering and staying in my lane on the curves. I think I averaged about 20 MPH and after 3 hours of that, I abandoned my plans and got off the parkway.
Of course I ended up on the windiest, smallest side road to get off the parkway to the highway and I vowed never to attempt that again.
Yes, it's not the width of the road or the height of the tunnels. It's the speed in which you drive that is the worst. And then you have the bicyclists (which we encountered). And to make it worse it was tandem bicyclists. You would think that two people pedaling would make them go twice as fast...lmao Personally, I think they should allow bicyclists on the parkway. Or at least give them a bicycle lane that doesn't interfere with traffic or require them to stop and get off the road when they have traffic backed up. But they won't do it. And when you have about 10-20 of them spread out over about 50-100 yards, it makes it nearly impossible to pass them due to oncoming traffic and curves.
