Planning our first trip and looking for suggestions.

Bluegrass Smokers is the name of my competition BBQ team. We are from Kentucky hence the name. I wouldn't call myself a bluegrass fan but I love all types of music.

Check carefully on the roads and bridges along the Blue Ridge. As noted by jnharley, many RVers are reluctant to take their rigs on the Parkway. With a group of friends, we stayed in a nice campground just south of Galax VA, basically around the corner from the NC line. If you like Old Time music, go into the town of Galax VA on a Friday night, and go to the Rex Theater, for a good ole foot stompin time. A few miles from the campground is an entrance onto the Blue Ridge. If you go north on the Parkway for several miles, there is a National Park Center that features regional music, a small museum, and local musicians that just come to the Center to play for visitors. You could stay in this area for a few days to soak up all of the local history and culture. Have Fun.

I love the Blue Ridge Parkway but would not tow our RV. Most of the campgrounds on the parkway were built long ago when RVs were much smaller and are dry camping. I would camp off the parkway and take day trips.

Double post. Sri

Just going by your screen name you might like to take in a few bluegrass festivals. Many are hosted by CGs. Others may require dry camping. Always great fun.

Not a bad idea, regardless of where you travel, but good intelligence about low clearance bridges and especially on the Blue Ride Parkway, tunnel heights.

Blue Ridge Parkway Tunnel Clearances

About the only difference in longer trips vs shorter trips is the amount of food and clothing you need.

Most likely, you won't take two weeks of fresh food with you. Take what you normally do and plan on going to a local grocery store once or twice on the trip.

If you don't have two weeks worth of clothing, take along a small supply of your own laundry soap & dryer sheets and plan on going to a Laundromat in mid-trip. We always have a roll of quarters handy for newspapers, showers & laundry.

Wow! You could spend an entire summer just in the Gatlinburg area alone! After you've seen Gatlinburg, then get off the beaten path and see how the real world lives. Find the little mom-and-pop restaurants along a back road in the middle of now where, or a shop that sells artifacts from the local artisans, or hike the trails, mountains, swimming, horses, you name it! Google search "Attraction", just in the Gatlinburg area, and you'll have enough hits to keep you occupied for years!

Head on to the Blue Ridge, a new Google Search, and you'll find everything imaginable. Lots of history in that area, pioneers, American Indian heritage, Civil War, you name it!

Campgrounds? You probable will not find a bad one anywhere. That part of the country is just jam packed full of stuff, from amusement parks to historical cemeteries. How about haunted houses, haunted places, haunted tours, oh my. Its all a matter of what you're interested in! The sky is the limit!

Some things to Google Search on are:
Weird Tennessee
Weird Virginia
Road side attractions (name your state)
Road side oddities
(name your city or county or state) and "attractions"
"What to do in ...."

And you'll be blown away.

Limit your search to your interests and this will drive you.

One year, we did a search for Rail Road museums in Indiana. Found out in Indiana there were 7. That 2 week summer vacation, we hit all 7 museums. Traveled from middle Indiana, to the Southern part, back to the top North, west, near Richmond Indiana (Ohio line) and finally back home. It was one awesome trip!

Internet search is your friend!