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	ASLA: Blue Ridge Parkway
		It is the first rural national parkway and served as a proving ground for many concepts and principles that are now firmly established and followed on other parkways throughout the world.
		Unlike many of the national park areas that were established in pristine wilderness areas of the country, the Blue Ridge Parkway is a restored landscape.
		The average parkway visitor is totally unaware that much of the beauty that is being enjoyed reflects the landscape architects' touch and the labor of hundreds of workers.
	www.asla.org /meetings/awards/awds01/blueridge.html (1610 words)

	Blue Ridge Parkway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The parkway runs from the southern terminus of Shenandoah National Park's Skyline Drive in Virginia at Rockfish Gap to U.S. at Oconaluftee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee, North Carolina.
		Wildflowers dominate the parkway in the spring, including rhododendrons and dogwoods, moving from valleys to mountains as the cold weather retreats.
		The parkway uses short side roads to connect to other highways, and there are no direct interchanges with interstate highways, making it possible to enjoy wildlife and other scenery without stopping for cross-traffic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue_Ridge_Parkway (1888 words)

	National Park Service: Expansion of the NPS in the 1930s (Chapter 4)
		The National Park Service considered these two parkways as "pioneers in their respective fields of national recreational and historical motor travel." [73] These parkways were not short county or metropolitan roadways serving local travel needs but rather protected interstate roadways traversing hundreds of miles of scenic and historical rural landscape.
		A national system plan would effect a coordinated and integrated system of national parkways and would serve as a basis for the consideration of individual proposals for national parkways and the coordination of the various state parkway programs.
		Initial planning for the parkway began by the National Park Service at Hoover's behest in 1931 and four work camps were established in 1932 to begin work using relief funds.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/unrau-williss/adhi4j.htm (2142 words)

	National parkway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		National Parkway is a designation for a protected area in the United States.
		National Parkways often connect cultural or historic sites.
		The designation is given to a scenic roadway and a protected corridor of surrounding parkland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Parkway (70 words)

	John D. Rockefeller National Parkway
		National Parkway connects the north entrance of Grant Teton National Park with the south entrance of Yellowstone.
		Although the parkway's land is still heavily forested, it has suffered some of the same forest fire damage as Yellowstone.
		In its northern section the parkway runs alongside the channel of the Snake River.
	www.shannontech.com /parkvision/JDRNPwy/JDRNPwy.html (196 words)

	NPCA Senior Vice President Testifies on Clean Power Act of 2001
		Finally, the National Park Service is concerned that carving into the park for this project would lead to proposals for development in the park by other entrance communities, all of which are nearing the limits of the developable land.
		Thus the boundaries of the Parkway and GRSM overlap along the southern most mile of the Parkway, with the Parkway passing immediately southeast of the Ravensford tract and running parallel to Big Cove Road.
		One of the key issues faced by Parkway planners was acquiring right-of-way through the Qualla Boundary to GRSM to construct the southern terminus of the road.
	www.npca.org /media_center/testimonies/testimony61803.asp (4376 words)

	Blue Ridge Parkway (National Park Service)
		Two short sections of the Parkway are closed for road and tunnel repair.
		A drive down the Parkway provides stunning, long range vistas and close-up looks at the natural and cultural history of the southern Appalachian mountains.
		During the winter seasons, sections of the road may be closed due to ice and snow, but there are always sections of the road that are open for travel.
	www.nps.gov /blri (258 words)

	The Life and Family of Elizabeth Anne VanderPutten - Pioneer Cabin on Blue Ridge National Parkway
		This mountain cabin at Humpback Rocks Visitor Center is part of a working pioneer farm maintained by the National Park Service on the Blue Ridge National Parkway.
		The Center is at milepost 6 on the Parkway.
		The 469 mile parkway connects the Shenandoah NP in Virginia and Great Smoky Mountains NP in North Carolina.
	www.evanderputten.org /pioneer-cabin-brnp2.htm (249 words)

	Natchez Trace Parkway (National Park Service)
		The 444-mile Natchez Trace Parkway commemorates an ancient trail that connected southern portions of the Mississippi River to salt licks in today’s central Tennessee.
		Today, visitors can experience this National Scenic Byway and All-American Road through driving, hiking, biking, horseback riding and camping.
		Unit of the National Park Service - May 18, 1938
	www.nps.gov /natr (174 words)

	Blue Ridge Country
		And with unsung visionary Tom Vint, National Park Service chief landscape architect, overseeing, Abbott - still in his 20s - applied diverse skills to convert 470 miles of hodge-podge mountain land into the nation's most famous rural national parkway, conforming to "a proper road's" guidelines and his own dream of a great American rural-life museum.
		And, as strange as it may seem, one of the magnificent by-products was the Blue Ridge Parkway, now celebrating its 60th anniversary.
		It was a combination of the economic dreams of older men and the energetic visions of younger men that put the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway into motion back in the Great Depression.
	www.blueridgecountry.com /parkway/parkway.html (833 words)

	John D Rockefeller Jr Memorial Parkway (National Park Service)
		The parkway provides a natural link between the two national parks and contains features characteristic of both areas.
		In the parkway, the Teton Range tapers to a gentle slope at its northern edge, while rocks born of volcanic flows from Yellowstone line the Snake River and form outcroppings scattered atop hills and ridges.
		Memorial Parkway to recognize his generosity and foresight.
	www.nps.gov /jodr (160 words)

	Time-exposure view of the Natchez Trace National Parkway Photographic Print by Randy Olson at Art.com
		Time-exposure view of the Natchez Trace National Parkway
		Time-exposure view of the Natchez Trace National Parkway Photographic Print by Randy Olson at Art.com
		Digitally Printed on Archival Photographic Paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display
	www.art.com /asp/sp.asp?PD=10239635&RFID=346898&engine=sitematch (94 words)

	Familycar.com introduces John A. Heilig Jr.
		Heilig has recently begun a car care column that is to be distributed to papers nationally through the Associated Press.
		We are happy to have John with us as a contributing columnist.
		Since 1982 he has written "The Auto Page," a self-syndicated weekly new automotive review column that appears in a dozen papers and two Internet sites.
	www.familycar.com /Bios/JohnHeilig.htm (316 words)

	Virginia
		(the Robert E. Lee Memorial), Luray Caverns, the Skyline Drive, and the Blue Ridge National Parkway.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108283.html (524 words)

	IPL Kidspace: Stately Knowledge
		Points of Interest: The Great Smoky Mountains, the Blue Ridge National Parkway, and the Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores
		Historical Sites: The Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk, Guilford Courthouse and Moores Creek National Military Parks, Carl Sandburg's home near Hendersonville, and the Old Salem Restoration in Winston-Salem
	www.ipl.org /div/kidspace/stateknow/nc1.html (359 words)

	Mississippi River Parkway Commission Home
		Copyright © 2005 - Mississippi River Parkway Commission - All Rights Reserved
		To learn more about how you can help those in need, contact:
	www.mississippiriverinfo.com (52 words)

	Franklin Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benjamin Franklin National Memorial is a 20 foot high statue, sculpted by James Earle Fraser, that sits within the rotunda of the institute.
		Although the statue is owned by the institute, the national memorial is an affiliated area of the National Park Service, assigned to Independence National Historical Park.
		National Park Service images of Benjamin Franklin National Memorial
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franklin_Institute (360 words)

	Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia and North Carolina
		The Blue Ridge Parkway, administered by the National Park Service, runs along the ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains for 469 miles from the southern tip of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, south to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee.
		However, the Newfound Gap road through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a natural extension to the southern end of the Parkway, so Tennessee is included in these notes as if it were truly a state through which the Parkway runs.
		According to a news story in the 1-Jun-01 edition of US Today, National Park Service figures indicate that the Blue Ridge Parkway had 19 million visitors in the year 2000, making it the most popular National Park Service area.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.cletheroe/usa_can/scenroad/brp.htm (360 words)

	The People's Alliance for Rock Creek
		Rock Creek National Park is a linear park of more than 1700 acres in the Northwest section of Washington D.C. The Park runs north to south along either side of Rock Creek.
		This four-lane parkway along the southern three miles of Rock Creek will remain the primary vehicular artery, and is not the subject of any proposed closures.
		Therefore, adverse impacts from changes in road use in Rock Creek National Park are likely to be overstated by the COG and other traditional four-step models.
	www.saverockcreekpark.org /PARCstudy.htm (2650 words)

	Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia and North Carolina
		The Blue Ridge Parkway, administered by the National Park Service, runs along the ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains for 469 miles from the southern tip of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, south to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee.
		The Parkway itself is toll-free, but there is an entrance fee for the Shenandoah National Park.
		According to the Blue Ridge Parkway Directory (a publicity booklet listing the various attractions, accommodation and restaurants close to the Parkway) from November to mid-April sections of the road are often closed.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.cletheroe/usa_can/scenroad/brp.htm (753 words)

	Yellowstone Protection Act
		Memorial Parkway was made by professionals in the National Park Service who based their decision on law, 10 years of scientific study, and extensive public process.
		Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park, and snowplane use in Grand Teton National Park, as published in the Federal Register on January 22, 2001 (66 Fed. Reg.
		Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park, and snowplane use in Grand Teton National Park.
	www.theorator.com /bills108/s965.html (845 words)

	July 20
		Memorial Parkway, that connects Grand Teton National Park to Yellowstone National Park.
		Somewhere along the Rockefeller Parkway, Russell Jacobs caught up with me and we rode side by side long enough to determine that we were going the same direction.
		In gratitude, the National Park Service named this piece of connecting land, which protects both National Parks from "front door" development, after Mr.
	wneo.org /gasp/July1999/july20.htm (790 words)

	The People's Alliance for Rock Creek
		Rock Creek National Park would be managed to encourage responsible use and enjoyment of existing recreational, cultural, and natural features, consistent with protection of the park's natural resources.
		Congress created Rock Creek National Park as "a public park and pleasure ground" with the purpose of "preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, animals, or curiosities within said park, and their retention in their natural condition, as nearly as possible."
		The four original NPS alternatives were widely criticized by park user groups for failing to balance protection of Rock Creek National Park’s natural resources with preservation of existing recreational facilities such as community gardens and horse stables.
	www.saverockcreekpark.org /Proptwohalf.htm (944 words)

	ddoi01_0416.txt
		These conclusions are based on the analysis contained in the FEIS and a report we commissioned on the economic impact of this regulation, ``Proposed Restrictions on Snowmobile Riding in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and the John D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway'' (LawGibb Group, Arcadis JSA, and Research Triangle Institute, January 2001).
		----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) is phasing out snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park (Yellowstone), the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway (the Parkway), and, with some exceptions, in Grand Teton National Park (Grand Teton), and snowplane use in Grand Teton.
		Because we believe it is possible to eliminate the impairment in Grand Teton by the winter of 2002-2003 and in Yellowstone and the Parkway by the winter of 2003-2004 without causing unacceptable social, economic, or environmental effects, we do not have the authority to delay any longer than that in eliminating the impairment.
	www.sba.gov /advo/laws/comments/ddoi01_0416.txt (8804 words)

	Parkway Maps
		Click here to go to a site with more downloadable maps of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Appalachian National Scenic Trail and Shenandoah National Park.
		Here are links to pages with printable maps to go with the directories of towns and places along the Parkway.
		From Milepost 412 (US 276) to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
	www.blueridgeparkway.org /maps.htm (188 words)

	Suitland Parkway
		Suitland Parkway was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 as an historic transportation entryway into the nation's capital and for its landscape architecture.
		Suitland Parkway is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and its vegetation is considered a cultural landscape.
		Today, the Maryland portion of the Suitland Parkway, approximately 6 miles in length, stretching from Southern Avenue to Route 4, on some 610 acres, is under the jurisdiction of National Capital Parks-East, a unit of the National Park Service.
	www.nps.gov /nace/suitlandparkway.htm (188 words)

	Blue Ridge Parkway Guide - Hiking Trails and Information
		The Blue Ridge Parkway travels 469 miles along the spine of the southern Appalachians, connecting Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the North Carolina/Tennessee border.
		Under the auspices of the National Park Service, the Parkway provides many great hiking opportunities along its length.
		Continuing along the escarpment, the parkway begins to pass some of the larger mountains such as Grandfather Mountain, the highest peak in the Blue Ridge.
	www.hikewnc.info /trailheads/parkway (405 words)

	Blue Ridge Parkway
		The Blue Ridge Parkway is a 469-mile scenic highway, connecting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina with Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.
		Last year, over 22 million people visited the Parkway, making it the most visited park in the National Park System.
		Construction of the Parkway began in September of 1935, as a project of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
	www.ils.unc.edu /dpr/path/blueridgepkwy (456 words)

	Walt's Photos - Colonial National Historical Park
		Off of the Colonial Parkway.-79 viewsThis is a view toward the mouth of the York River from the Colonial Parkway.
		Some dandelions-132 viewsButtercups on the embankment separating the Colonial Parkway from the York River.
		Jones Mill Pond-121 viewsThis pond is off the Colonial Parkway.
	www.waltlatham.com /gallery/thumbnails.php?album=12 (63 words)

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