Special Information
Interpretive signs carrying the squirrel gun and powder horn symbol will be found at various points along the Parkway where there is a legend, old building, or place of scientific interest.
Entrances
At the entrance to each of the recreational areas along the Parkway you will find a large carved wooden sign bearing the Parkway emblem. This is also the designation used on the maps herein to locate the recreational areas now ready for use.
Elias Mabry Mill on the Parkway, Virginia.
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY
Shenandoah National Park—Roanoke, Virginia
North of the James River the Parkway winds through large sections of the George Washington National Forest. This scenic route is very spectacular where it crosses the high cliff sections of Humpback Mountain. Purple rhododendron blooms here in early June. Through this region, too, are glimpses of isolated mountain farm groups, as well as distant views to the fertile “bread basket of the Confederacy” in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.