{"id":4304,"date":"2016-11-05T07:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T11:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:44:08","slug":"blue-ridge-parkway-pisgah-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/05\/blue-ridge-parkway-pisgah-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ridge Parkway – Pisgah section"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"View<\/a>

View from the parkway<\/p><\/div>\n

On our free day in Asheville, I was looking for some way to explore the area further and discovered that the very southernmost section of the Blue Ridge Parkway<\/a> – the “Pigsah” section – ran very close to Asheville. And, in fact, very close to our campsite. That was all the encouragement I needed to take a road trip.<\/p>\n

It was a clear day, but a bit hazy. Not a picture-perfect day, but not a bad day to capture the shades of blue and gray and the late fall colors. The drive itself was surprisingly challenging, rising from the 2,000-foot elevation of Asheville to over 4,000 feet in less than 10 miles. The parkway has many overlooks where travelers can stop to admire the view and take pictures and I used most of them.<\/p>\n

Some of my photos are shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Walnut<\/a>

Walnut Cove overlook<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bad<\/a>

Bad Fork Valley overlook<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Stony<\/a>

Stony Bald overlook<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Big<\/a>

Big Ridge overlook<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Blue<\/a>

Blue Ridge, with some fall colors<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our free day in Asheville, I was looking for some way to explore the area further and discovered that the very southernmost section of the Blue Ridge Parkway – the “Pigsah” section – ran very close to Asheville. And, in fact, very close to our campsite. That was all the encouragement I needed to … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,38,4,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-nc","category-places","category-tts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-17q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7277,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions\/7277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}