Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Pkwy
We could use a little help with our trip planning. We plan to enter Skyline Drive at Front Royal and drive the full length of it. After this we will take the Blue Ridge Pkwy to the Smokey Mountain Nat...
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I'll echo some of the thoughts. On the BRP in north Carolina. You will have to get off to get fuel. The Bluff near VA is the only place I know you can get gas on the Parkway itself.
The campgrounds are all primitive, with no hookup, and only a Check in office where the Rangers hang out. However. They are great. The Parkway is an easy drive, and actually one of the better roads thru the Blue Ridge. However as mentioned. Pick the side roads you want to use with care. The hardest part of riding the BRP is getting to it. Highway 321 at Boone would be one of the better places to get off, and fuel. You will need to give yourself PLENTY of time if you try to run the complete Parkway. I would put aside at least a week.
Avoid (trying) to go down highway 80, or 226.
Also there are a few private CGs on, or at the parkway. Raccoone Holler, Miller Camp, and Bear Den have full hookups.
And just to be clear. The BRP does NOT go into Tenn. It stops in Cherokee NC.
The campgrounds are all primitive, with no hookup, and only a Check in office where the Rangers hang out. However. They are great. The Parkway is an easy drive, and actually one of the better roads thru the Blue Ridge. However as mentioned. Pick the side roads you want to use with care. The hardest part of riding the BRP is getting to it. Highway 321 at Boone would be one of the better places to get off, and fuel. You will need to give yourself PLENTY of time if you try to run the complete Parkway. I would put aside at least a week.
Avoid (trying) to go down highway 80, or 226.
Also there are a few private CGs on, or at the parkway. Raccoone Holler, Miller Camp, and Bear Den have full hookups.
And just to be clear. The BRP does NOT go into Tenn. It stops in Cherokee NC.
