Blue Ridge Parkway: Adopt-An-Overlook

 

The FRIENDS of the Blue Ridge Parkway have a program called Adopt-an-Overlook. There is one nice overlook and two "parking widening" areas on the R2R section of the Blue Ridge Parkway that need to be adopted.  If you would like to volunteer and do some off-trail "maintenance", this would be a great opportunity to make a needed contribution to the BRP.

Here is a list of the R2R section overlooks/parking widening (click title to go to source link) and you can see the three on our section that need adopting:  Dripping Rock (an AT crossing!), Rock Point Overlook (spectacular view) and the Hickory Spring Parking Widening (picnic table? nice view, if I remember this one correctly).  You can also go to a 360 video of each area here:  Blue Ridge Parkway Overlooks

RIDGE DISTRICT PARKWAY OVERLOOKS

MP	Overlook Name	FRIENDS Adopter
0.2	Afton Parking Overlook	ADOPTED - Joe Price
1.5	Rockfish Valley parking Overlook	ADOPTED - Sandra Gallagher
2.9	Shenandoah Valley Parking Overlook	ADOPTED - Michael Upchurch
5.8	Humpback Gap Parking Area	ADOPTED - Michael Upchurch
8.8	Greenstone Parking Overlook	ADOPTED - Leonard and Laurie Adkins
9.6	Dripping Rock Parking Widening	Available!
10.4	Rock Point Parking Overlook	Available!
10.7	Raven's Roost Parking Overlook	ADOPTED - Raven's Roosters
11.7	Hickory Spring Parking Widening	Available!
13.1	Three Ridges Parking Overlook	ADOPTED - Blue Ridge Group of the Sierra Club

For details on the Adopt-an-Overlook program ..... what duties are involved, time commitment, application and other information, visit:  ADOPT-AN-OVERLOOK PROGRAM 

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So you can see pictures from September of two of the three 'needs adopting' overlooks/parking widening, Rock Point is at the top of the post and a picture of the view below:

 

 Rock Point Overlook View looking northwest.

Dripping Rock Parking Widening (and AT crossing):

 

Dripping Rock .... spring in the background.

 

 Looking north as the AT goes up the hill (Section 9)

 

Looking south as the AT enters the woods from the BRP crossing (Section 10)

 

 The spring at Dripping Rock.

I don't have any pictures of the Hickory Springs parking widening, but there is a 360 video view on the Blue Ridge Parkway Overlooks link above

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(All Photos: Merlot)