The Blue Ridge Parkway

As I have mentioned already, we took the Blue Ridge Parkway on our trip to the mountains. I was surprised to see how poor the roads were these days. Wow! Talk about potholes! Very, very poor surface on most of the drive. Quite a few of the scenic overlooks were closed for construction repairs so that was a bummer. Another problem I had was the fact that there were numerous cyclists on the road. For those that have never traveled on the Parkway before, this is a 2-lane road with a max speed limit of 45mph. It is quite curvy with breath-taking scenery of the mountains. On Saturday we encountered a ton of bicycles and finally decided to make a game of counting them. We estimate that we passed somewhere around 50-100 cyclists BEFORE we started counting. We then counted 26 before reaching our destination. On the ride home we passed 34 cyclists. Having so many on the road and having to share the lanes with all the car traffic made for dangerous situations. I really feel that there needs to be bike lanes or they need to be banned from riding there. It is entirely too dangerous to try to pass them with all the traffic on the road. I understand that it is a popular ride for cyclists but still... got to consider safety first! Just my opinion...