Blue Ridge Parkway
The Parkway is a 469 mile drive “revealing stunning long-range vistas and close-up views of the rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes of the Appalachian Highlands.” The Blue Ridge Parkway is in both Virginia and North Carolina.
Here is their website. Phone 828-348-3400 Recorded Park Information line 828-298-0398
Parkway Visitor Center in Asheville, North Carolina 828-298-5330 Map Real time open/close road status map – Accessibility
The Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia
Peaks of Otter
Abbot Lake Trail One mile loop around the lake “…through a woodland forest and open field.
Trails in North Carolina This site gives mileage and a rating of easy, moderate or strenuous and links to trail maps. I can not tell just how easy is “easy” and there is no indication whether there might be obstacles such as stairs.
Rocky Knob
? Rocky Knob Picnic area trail “… is an easy 1-mile loop and offers a pleasant walk through a mature forest of large oaks, ashes, hickories, Fraser magnolias, hemlocks, and other native trees and shrubs.”