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Blue Ridge Highlands Scenic Drive: Overlooks, Waterfalls & Mountain Lore

1.8 km · 23 min · 9 stops · Rating 4.8 (1,193)

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Starting near Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center

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Stop 1: BarkMore Park

trailhead~5 minContent language: English

10 Hemphill Rd, Asheville, NC 28803, USA

You step into BarkMore Park and feel the drive loosen its grip—traffic hushes, and the air takes on that Asheville edge: a mix of cool shade, sun-warmed bark, and distant woodsmoke that sometimes drif

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Stop 2: Martin Monuments

trailhead~4 minContent language: English

104 Charlotte Hwy, Asheville, NC 28803, USA

You feel it before you read any sign—the shift from sweeping overlooks to a grounded, tactile kind of place. Here at Martin Monuments, near 104 Charlotte Hwy, Asheville, NC 28803, the air carries a fa

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Stop 3: Tammy Murphy - State Farm Insurance Agent

trailhead~2 minContent language: English

135 Charlotte Highway b, Asheville

You’re standing near Tammy Murphy – State Farm Insurance Agent, close to 135 Charlotte Highway b in Asheville, and it’s a surprisingly fitting threshold—where the practical world meets the pull of the

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Stop 4: Claudine Kurtz

trailhead~2 minContent language: English

503 Woodfield Drive, Asheville

You arrive at Claudine Kurtz and the Parkway seems to exhale with you—traffic hushes, and the air takes on that Blue Ridge clarity that smells faintly of resin and cool stone. Just off the Asheville s

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Stop 5: The Fro Yo Lab

trailhead~2 minContent language: English

145 Charlotte Highway Suite 10, Asheville

You’ve been riding the Blue Ridge Parkway’s long green rhythm, and here—at The Fro Yo Lab near 145 Charlotte Highway Suite 10, Asheville—the journey briefly shifts from overlook to countertop, from di

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Stop 6: Cultivated Cocktails Distillery Tavern

trailhead~2 minContent language: English

161 Charlotte Highway A, Asheville

You step out and the air changes—Asheville’s edge-of-town hum softened by hills, the scent of damp leaf litter, and that faint, sweet-green note you get when hardwoods and evergreens share the same br

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Stop 7: Asheville Chiropractor

trailhead~3 minContent language: English

16 Winterwind Dr, Asheville, NC 28803, USA

You’ve stepped off the long ribbon of road for a moment, here near 16 Winterwind Dr in Asheville—close enough to hear the everyday hush of a neighborhood, yet still held by the mountains’ wide, green

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Stop 8: Neo Tobacco and Vape Fairview

trailhead~2 minContent language: English

145 Charlotte Hwy Ste 50, Asheville, NC 28803, USA

You step out near Neo Tobacco and Vape Fairview, at 145 Charlotte Hwy Ste 50, and for a moment the trip feels delightfully ordinary—parking-lot gravel underfoot, the soft rush of Charlotte Highway, a

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Stop 9: Family Care of Fairview

trailheadContent language: English

136 Charlotte Highway, Asheville

You step out near Family Care of Fairview and, for a moment, the journey quiets—tires cooling, a soft rush of traffic on Charlotte Highway, and beyond it the first hints of Blue Ridge air: damp earth,

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