Blue Ridge Parkway

Since using words to describe the parkway won't do it justice, I’ll use numbers.

1935 – Work begins on the Appalachian Scenic Highway
469 – Miles long
29 – Counties in North Carolina and Virginia through which it runs
3 – The only years the parkway wasn’t the most visited unit of the National Park System (1949, 2013 , 2016)

I hope that last stat isn’t pointing to the fact that folks just don’t like driving any longer. Heck, if you don’t like driving it is probably because you’ve not done enough on this route.