Pick Your Scenic Drive
Scenic Drives
Name of Drive
Description
Highlights
Where It Begins and Ends
Length In Miles
Website
Blue Ridge Parkway
Americas most popular drive
northern end of 469 mile drive
rockfish gap
mabry mill
humpback rocks
Fancy Gap to Charlottesville (Virginia section)
207
800/438-7500
Skyline Drive
scenic vistas inside Shenendoah National Park
northern end of Blue Ridge Parkway
Waynesboro to Front Royal
105
540/999-3500
Stauton Parkersburg Turnpike
historic road over the Alleghenies into West Virginia
high mountains and scenic valleys
Staunton VI to Parkersburg WV
180
304/637-7424
James River Plantations
Spectacular drive to historic homes
shirley plantation
berkeley manor
westover
sherwood forest plantation
Richmond to Yorktown
75
800/932-5827
George Washington Memorial Parkway
carefully planned scenic route to the nations capital
arlinton national cemetery
potomac gorge
great falls park
Theodore Roosevelt island
Mt Vernon Estate to Claude Moore Colonial Farm
25
703/289-2500
Norfolk to Ocracoke Island
coastal drive along scenic outer banks
ocracoke island
Norfolk VI to Ocracoke Island NC
158
757/664-6620
The Crooked Road
musical heritage drive
Traditional Mountain Music Center
Appalachians Traditions Village
Cater Family Fold
Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Blue Ridge Institute & Farm Museum
50 towns including Galax Floyd Ferrum & Bristol
333
276/492-2400 ext 2409