Highways that take more distance to clinch than they are long

[cpzilliacus]

The Blue Ridge Parkway is nearly 470 miles in Virginia and North Carolina, yet it is difficult to drive in a day (it has always taken me 2 days) because of its 45 MPH speed limit, and curves and grades that mean some parts are slower to drive than the 45 limit.

[Flint1979]

The Blue Ridge Parkway is nearly 470 miles in Virginia and North Carolina, yet it is difficult to drive in a day (it has always taken me 2 days) because of its 45 MPH speed limit, and curves and grades that mean some parts are slower to drive than the 45 limit.

I have an uncle that lives in Vermont and an uncle that lived in North Carolina before he passed away about 10 years ago. My uncle from Vermont was traveling down to North Carolina to visit his brother so he decided to take the Blue Ridge Parkway. I just said wow that probably took you about 10 hours to drive that. With the trip from Burlington, VT to Winston-Salem, NC on Google Maps claiming it'd take about 13 and a half hours you mean to tell me that you took a route that takes 10 hours to drive when the whole thing takes 13 and a half. I told him should have went down I-87 to I-287 then to I-78 to I-81 to US-220 down to US-158 then to Winston-Salem. The speed limit, curves and grades would make me not want to drive that.

[hbelkins]

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a fun route to drive -- except when you get behind a vehicle that's going slower than you want to go, because of limited passing zones, or in Virginia where you can't use your radar detector.

[Flint1979]

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a fun route to drive -- except when you get behind a vehicle that's going slower than you want to go, because of limited passing zones, or in Virginia where you can't use your radar detector.

Nothing is as bad as driving up or down the Mount Washington Auto Road in New Hampshire.