Blue Ridge Parkway route map and profile drawing – Antique Map Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Blue Ridge Parkway route map and profile drawing in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Blue Ridge Parkway route map and profile drawing
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The Blue Ridge Parkway route map and profile drawing shows the scenic road as a line of elevation traced across the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina, a planner's view of a road meant to be seen as much as driven. The parkway was begun in 1935 as a Depression-era public works project, designed to link Shenandoah National Park with Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the ridgetops. Drawings like this one helped engineers and the National Park Service explain how the road would climb and descend through the terrain, shaping its curves to frame long views of the Appalachians.
| Original scan | 14,481 × 9,851 px · prints to 48 × 33 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 00002a |
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