10Best: Can't-miss Blue Ridge Parkway towns — usatoday.com

The platitude "It's about the journey, not the destination," is actually a smart route-planning rule when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway. This National Heritage Area stretches for 469 miles from Virginia down through North Carolina, but it's not a "point-A-to-point-B" experience. You can cruise the entire parkway non-stop, or pull over every 10 miles to explore – get on for a short distance, or stay the course from the first milepost to the last. Mileposts are numbered north-to-south, but you can drive south-to-north and miss nothing.

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