Virtual Blue Ridge Parkway

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway wildflower report for August 24th, 2007. Triple digit temperatures have gripped much of the Virginia and North Carolina piedmont over the past couple of weeks. So the Parkway has been an especially popular place to find temperatures sometimes as much as twenty degrees cooler. It has also been very dry, so be especially careful on your trip to the mountains. No open fires are allowed outside of the nine designated drive-in campgrounds along the Parkway.