Blue Ridge Parkway Photos

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Sunday, Pip and Bar and I rode up the Blue Ridge Parkway for a couple of hours until we got to Mt Mitchell, the tallest peak east of the Mississippi. They've got a nice restaurant so we had lunch and then headed back. Here are some photos:





View over a split-rail fence at one of the overlooks



View over the fence



View over the fence



Trees on the mountainside



Evergreens



An old, lichen-covered tree



View from the Mt Mitchell restaurant porch



Craggy Pinnacle tunnel at the top of the ridge



Craggy Pinnacle Tunnel



You can see why they're also called the Great Smoky Mountains



Looking up toward the tunnel



The red berries are mountain ash trees



You can see why we call it the Blue Ridge



Mountains and ash



Mountain ash vista



I tried to get a good shot of the valley with tiny little farms below



Blue Ridge vista from the overlook



Elevation sign at one of the overlooks