Ultimate Road Trips Photo Gallery--National Geographic

Virginia-North Carolina: Tangled Up in Blue Photograph by Harrison Shull, Aurora Photos Spanning two states and 469 miles without a single stop sign or traffic light, the winding Blue Ridge Parkway unspools along ridgetops, into fertile valleys, and past the highest peak east of the Mississippi (Mount Mitchell) as it links Waynesboro, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Mountains to Cherokee, North Carolina, in the Great Smoky Mountains.