Blue Ridge Parkway – Parkway Travel Advisory in Asheville Area (U.S. National Park Service)

Date: July 21, 2010

Blue Ridge Parkway Travel Advisory Revised

(Asheville, NC)  The daily closures scheduled for this week for corridor tree trimming and hazard tree work on sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway, from Milepost 393 to Milepost 383, have changed.  The current closure schedule is as follows:

·         Milepost 393.5, the [...]

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