North American Driving Holidays: The Blue Ridge Parkway

Duration: 10 nights
Distance (approx): 660 miles
Price: Call for info

The Blue Ridge Parkway

Wildflowers and Mountain Music in The Ribbon Garden

Follow the Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway along the crest of the Appalachians with spectuculat vista and amazing foliage. Visit Charlottesville and Jefferson Country. Following the time at Smith Mountain Lake head east to the old colonial town of Williamsburg on the James River with it's Plantation Houses. In Washington DC there are numerous sites and located along the Mall from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capital Building including The White House, The Smithsonian Museum and the Washington Monument.

Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway

Featured accomodation

Additional accomodation

Sugar Tree Inn

Steeles Tavern, Virginia

Alice Person House

Williamsburg, Virginia

Itinerary

75 miles to Woodstock Inn at Narrow Passage - Includes breakfast
2 nights

80 miles to Steeles tavern, Sugar Tree Inn
2 nights

85 miles to Hardy Smith Mountain Lake, Westlake Waterfront Inn.
2 nights

250 miles to Williamsburg, Alice Person House - Includes breakfast
2 nights

150 miles to Washington, Latham Hotel Georgetown
2 nights

Highlights

Scenic Drives

Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive; Scenic Byway No. 5 with celebrated colonial era plantations along the James River.

Colonial Williamsburg

Jamestown and Yorktown excellent re-creation of colonial era life and pioneer history.

Washington DC

Museums, monuments, and renowned sites along the Mall.

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

Wonderful house and gardens near Charlottesville.

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