Multi-State Parkways

States with Parkways

Blue Ridge Parkway (North Carolina, Virginia)

4/6/1998 Back a different way, including a brief stretch on the very start of the Blue Ridge Parkway ...

A beautuful view

10/15/2010 Back south on the Skyline to where it became the Blue Ridge Parkway (Byway) and took that south a few miles to the Humpback Rocks VC. Here we walked to a farm area, noting the Rocks on the way. The farm consisted of real 1800s buildings relocated here in the 1950s and was very nice.

The park sign

A view to Humpback Rocks

1800s farm building

George Washington Memorial Parkway (District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia)

9/22/1996 Back into D.C.; after lots of circling stopped at Theodore Roosevelt Island (NPS). Walked across a bridge and around the island, stopping at a huge statue and monument to T.R. Drove a short way down the G. W. Parkway to Lyndon B. Johnson Memorial Grove overlooking the Potomac. Had a nice picnic lunch in the pine grove looking at D.C.

Me being silly at TR Island

At the LBJ Grove

7/26/1997 Drove down the GW Parkway to Mount Vernon [NHL]. ... Up the GW Parkway, with a nice view of Ft. Washington, through Alexandria to Gravelly Point. Stopped here for a walk along the Mount Vernon Trail (NPS - part of Potomac Heritage NST) to a spot right at the end of the runway at National. Spent a while watching the planes drop in directly overhead for landing only a short distance away.

Plane coming in at Gravelly Point

10/10/2016 Went around the beltway to Glen Echo Park, in the George Washington Memorial Parkway group of the NPS. Although just about everything was closed in the off season, I enjoyed walking around on a cool but beautiful day. Everything in the park has an Art Deco look, and a large indoor carousel is one of the main attractions.

The park sign

Cool art deco

The Dentzel Carousel inside ...

... and outside

Bumper car pavilion

Crystal Pool entrance

Natchez Trace Parkway (Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee)

5/6/1996 Got on the Natchez Trace Parkway [NPS] and saw an Indian village site and the visitor center.

The park sign

5/22/2003 Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail.

9/17/2016 I jumped on the Natchez Trace Parkway NSB and took it for over 50 miles back to Nashville.

The park sign

On the rainy Parkway

An historical monument

10/14/2017 ... before we got back in the car and jumped on the Natchez Trace Parkway (AAR and NPS, also p/o Mississippi Hills NHA). This was a very pleasant and scenic drive along the water and wooded areas.

The NPS parkway sign

Driving the Parkway

Me reading Parkway info

10/14/2017 Nearby we jumped on the Natchez Trace Parkway for an out-and-back stretch to take credit in AL.

The NPS parkway sign

A look down the Parkway