Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot: A Park Ranger's Memoir (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies)

"One of the premier tourist attractions of the eastern United States, the Blue Ridge Parkway stretches from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina. This volume relates the author's one-of-a-kind backpacking trip along the entire 469-mile road that is the most visited unit of the National Park Service. Woven into his narrative of the hike are observations and recollections from the twelve years he spent working as a ranger on the Parkway. Anecdotal history and accounts from some of the Parkway's earliest rangers complete this tale of one of our country's national treasures. An appendix contains a day-by-day, mile-to-mile summary of his 2003 trek, noting all of the Parkway landmarks mentioned in the book."--BOOK JACKET.Tim Pegram is the author of 'Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot: A Park Ranger's Memoir (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies)', published 2007 under ISBN 9780786431403 and ISBN 0786431407.