The Blue Ridge Parkway drifts 758 km along the Appalachian spine between Virginia and North Carolina, built slow on purpose, with no straight lines and no billboards. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The parkway runs the length of the Appalachian ridge between Shenandoah and the Great Smoky Mountains, climbing from around 200 m near its low points to 1,843 m at Richland Balsam, its highest stretch. Crews broke ground near Cumberland Knob in September 1935 as a Depression relief project, paid thirty cents an hour to cut the roadbed by hand rather than with the heavy machinery the government wanted the work to employ.

The last piece, the Linn Cove Viaduct curving around the face of Grandfather Mountain, was not finished until September 1987, exactly fifty two years after the first crews started digging. No billboards and no commercial trucks are allowed anywhere along the route, and more people visit it each year than any other unit in the entire national park system.

Made for someone who drove it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Cabot Trail, Going-to-the-Sun Road and Icefields Parkway.

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