YES! As a resident of the Shenandoah Valley who lives just off VA Rt. 11
and 20 minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway, I highly recommend some such a
route--with frequent detours onto some of "side" roads.
For example, If you're traveling down I-81 Southbound, take the
Bridgewater, VA exit west (I think its exit 331) to Rt. 42 South. Rt. 42
is only 2 miles off of I-81 at this point. Then take Rt. 42 for the next
15 miles to Rt. 250 South and take to Rt. 275 East back to I-81. That 15
mile stretch of Rt. 42 was named one of Car and Driver's "Top Ten Driving
Roads" for South East. I drive it at least 2-3 times a week and it is
AWESOME!!!! Between stretches of snickity S-turns to several wide sweepers
and a couple of straights to open it up, it is a drivers dream.
There are countless such roads between VA and Georgia that just beg to be
driven hard.
Enjoy the ride.
Alex Avery
Staunton, VA
At 08:43 AM 8/29/01 -0700, L Jordan wrote:
>Reggie,
>That is a beautiful area, the Smokey Mountains, I was there in April and it
>looked like the attached. Lots of great driving roads too.
>Linda
>
>reggie.orr@ps.ge.com wrote:
>
>> Just a note to all the folks planning to come to Road Atlanta in
>> September.If you are coming from north of the South Carolina border, I would
>> HIGHLY recommend driving as much of the Blue Ridge Parkway and/or Highway 11
>> as you can.It may add a little time to the drive but the scenery of the
>> mountains is beautiful.Highway 11 ends up on I-85 just below Anderson,S.C.
>> at the Georgia state line and the Blue Ridge Parkway starts up around
>> Virginia and ends up in the Great Smokey Mountains near Cherokee,N.C.(just
>> my .02)
>>
>> Reggie Orr
>> g GE Power Systems
>> Combustion Manufacturing
>> 3rd shift ERT
>> Ph.# (864)254-3889
>> E-mail: reggie.orr@ps.ge.com
>> SEROC
>
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