| Now that you have viewed the photos from THE
Blowing Rock, here's some photos and facts about the City of Blowing Rock,
plus some great scenery on the way to Grandfather Mountain. |
| Blowing Rock's visitor center and a miniature
carving of a covered bridge |
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Scenery taken while driving
towards Grandfather Mountain |
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| Linn Cove Viaduct is a 1243-foot
concrete segmental bridge which snakes around the slopes of Grandfather
Mountain in North Carolina. It was completed in 1983 at a cost of $10 million
and was the last section of the Blue Ridge Parkway to be finished. It is
said to be the most complicated concrete bridge ever built. The viaduct
was needed because of the damage that a traditional cut-and-fill road would
have caused to Grandfather Mountain. It is 1,243 feet long and consists
of 153 segments weighing 50 tons each. The bridge's segments were precast
at an indoor facility at the south side of the parkway. After being transported
to the bridge site, each section was lowered into place by a custom crane
placed on either edge of the existing structure. The only work done at ground
level was drilling for the seven footings which support the viaduct. In
particular, there was no access road other than the Blue Ridge Parkway itself.
The bridge has received eleven design awards. |
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| Yonahlossee Overlook (Milepost 303.9) on the
Blue Ridge Parkway - and the two RV Gypsies' toad facing Bare Mountain Rock. |
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| The path alongside the road
which allowed the two RV Gypsies to enjoy a really nice view from this overlook
and Bare Mountain Rock |
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| In the below photos, notice the road that the
two RV Gypsies are currently as it twists and turns around the mountain
side. |
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| The two RV Gypsies found a nice place to have
a picnic lunch from the tailgate of their new toad, known as MOB "Monster
Out Back" |
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| Price Lake is a reservoir in Watauga County
in the state of North Carolina. The latitude and longitude coordinates for
this reservoir are 36.1393, -81.7307 and the altitude is 3366 feet. |
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| There is something swimming in this lake -
but Karen did not have her big zoom lens with her. It appears to be some
type of animal, but not a bird or duck. Lee could actually see it in the
photo at the left, but Karen could not see it until she zoomed in on it
as close as she could. |
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