Monday, August 26 – The last BRP landmark we hit was the
Linn Cove Viaduct, which is a bridge
which essentially hangs of the edge of Grandfather Mountain. Completed in
1987, it wasthe last part of the Blue
Ridge Parkway to be built. And because
of Sandy’s love for all things related to infrastructure, we stopped to walk
the path that takes you under the viaduct.
My Uncle Bob later told us that Grandfather Mountain is privately owned,
it took all those years (the parkway started to be built in the 1930s) to
negotiate a way to get the BRP around that mountain in order to make it
continuous for it’s entire length.
A few miles later when we sadly had to exit the BRP, we came
across this sign for the Eastern Continental Divide, which we didn’t even know
existed. According to Wikipedia, the
Eastern Continental Divide demarcates two watersheds of the Atlantic Ocean: the
Gulf of Mexico Watershed (where all water flows toward the Gulf) and the
Atlantic Seaboard watershed. Another
geography lesson!
Monday, August 26 – The last BRP landmark we hit was the
Linn Cove Viaduct, which is a bridge
which essentially hangs of the edge of Grandfather Mountain. Completed in
1987, it wasthe last part of the Blue
Ridge Parkway to be built. And because
of Sandy’s love for all things related to infrastructure, we stopped to walk
the path that takes you under the viaduct.
My Uncle Bob later told us that Grandfather Mountain is privately owned,
it took all those years (the parkway started to be built in the 1930s) to
negotiate a way to get the BRP around that mountain in order to make it
continuous for it’s entire length.
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