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Blue Ridge Parkway (North Carolina, Virginia)
4/6/1998 Back a different way, including a brief stretch on the very start of the Blue Ridge Parkway [NC] ...
A beautuful view
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10/15/2010 Blue Ridge Parkway (Byway)
George Washington Memorial Parkway (District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia)
9/22/1996 Back into D.C.; after lots of circling stopped at Theodore Roosevelt Island (NPS). Walked across a
bridge and around the island, stopping at a huge statue and monument to T.R. Drove a short way down the G. W. Parkway [VA] to Lyndon B.
Johnson Memorial Grove overlooking the Potomac. Had a nice picnic lunch in the pine grove looking at D.C.
Me being silly at TR Island
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At the LBJ Grove
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7/26/1997 Drove down the GW Parkway [VA] to Mount Vernon [NHL]. ... Up the GW Parkway, with a nice view of
Ft. Washington, through Alexandria to Gravelly Point. Stopped here for a walk along the Mount Vernon Trail (NPS - part of
Potomac Heritage NST [VA]) to a spot right at the end of the runway at National. Spent a while watching the planes drop in directly
overhead for landing only a short distance away.
Plane coming in at Gravelly Point
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10/10/2016 Went around the beltway to Glen Echo Park, in the George Washington Memorial Parkway [MD] group of the NPS.
Although just about everything was closed in the off season, I enjoyed walking around on a cool but beautiful day. Everything in the park
has an Art Deco look, and a large indoor carousel is one of the main attractions.
The park sign
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Cool art deco
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The Dentzel Carousel inside ...
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... and outside
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Bumper car pavilion
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Crystal Pool entrance
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Natchez Trace Parkway (Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee)
5/6/1996 Got on the Natchez Trace Parkway [NPS][MS] and saw an Indian village site and the visitor center.
The park sign
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9/17/2016 I jumped on the Natchez Trace Parkway NSB [TN] and took it for over 50 miles back to Nashville.
The park sign
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On the rainy Parkway
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An historical monument
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10/14/2017 ... before we got back in the car and jumped on the Natchez Trace Parkway [MS](AAR and NPS, also p/o Mississippi
Hills NHA). This was a very pleasant and scenic drive along the water and wooded areas.
The NPS parkway sign
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Driving the Parkway
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Me reading Parkway info
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10/15/2017 Nearby we jumped on the Natchez Trace Parkway for an out-and-back stretch to take credit in AL.
The NPS parkway sign
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A look down the Parkway
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4/30/2023 A short distance away we jumped on the Natchez Trace Parkway (NPS and AAR) and enjoyed the gentle curves and lush greenery
of the pretty road all the way to the southern terminus in Natchez. Right near the end we stopped at the Emerald Mound Site NHL for yet another group of
Indian mounds. This is a Mississippian period archaeological site and the type site for the Emerald Phase (1500 to 1680 CE) of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture.
The Parkway sign ...
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... looking down the road
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A pretty section
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The sign at ...
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Emerald Mound
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Interpretive signage
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Ken photos ...
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... the NHL plaque
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Me at ...
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... the main mound area
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Ken sets up for ...
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... a 360 of mound and us
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5/1/2023 Vicksburg National Military Park