From: Bob Sullivan
John,
There is a big Parkway arts & crafts center just on the north side of Asheville.
We got a Parkway map there and the mileposts on it would be your friends.
Unfortunately the 35 mph speed limit is not to friendly.
It seemed to take forever to drive up from Ashville to GFM on the Blue
Ridge Parkway.
The first time we came to GFM, we did it in the fog!
Not good for a flatland driver like me.
If I can't see the road on the horizon, I have to slow way down.
Check for one of those maps.
Regards, Bob S.
Oh, I'm fine on the map part.
I already know the routes coming and going by heart, having traveled
them numerous times before. I've been up and down the Parkway, covering
the whole length at one time or another in overlapping sections. I've
driven Skyline Drive.
I picked up a new copy of the NPS Blue Ridge Parkway brochure (which has
a fairly complete map) at the Linn Cove Visitors Center on the way in to
GFM on Friday.
This is my first chance to plan a dedicated trip to drive the whole
length of Skyline Drive & the Blue Ridge Parkway in one swell foop;
without any time constraints. It's sort of a consolation prize because
I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to make the trip out west I really
wanted to make this year.
I'm timing it so I can pick up my "America the Beautiful – National
Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass – Senior Pass" (used to be the
"Golden Age Passport") when I get to the ranger station at the north
entrance to Skyline Drive.
With Point A at my house, and Point B at the Matthews Arm Campground,
Google will almost give me the route I want. I only have to drag one
point to get the route to go to the entrance to Skyline Drive at Front
Royal before turning south. And Google auto-magically tells me it's 277
miles in 6 hours & 16 minutes.
I was hoping to use Google's driving directions to do the math for me
while graphically plotting how far I'm going to try to drive each day.
That's how I planned my trips out west. But on the Parkway, Google jumps
off as soon as the route crosses a numbered highway.
What it won't do is show me how far down Skyline Drive & the Blue Ridge
Parkway I can get in 5 hours driving the next day, so I'm going to have
to figure that part out the old fashioned way.
I'm figuring 12 hour days, 7:00am to 7:00pm, which leaves me 7 hours of
play time if I if I spend 5 hours driving.
I want to be able to place Point A at my daily stopping point & drag
Point B south until it shows 5 hours driving time, and adjust from there
to make my next stopping point the nearest NPS camping site along the
Parkway.
And Google Maps is being a pain in the fundament about doing it the way
I want it to do it. They say there's a fortune to be made inventing a
computer program that will do what you want it to do instead of what you
tell it to do.
Right now, I'm having trouble getting Google Maps to even do what I tell
it to do.
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