Wildlife
White-tailed deer, black bears, beavers, groundhogs, chipmunks, squirrels, raccoons, opossums, foxes, fish, salamanders, snakes, turtles, frogs, toads, lizards, skinks, great blue herons, great egrets, peregrine falcons, songbirds, hummingbirds, hawks, owls, woodpeckers, ducks, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, damselflies, grasshoppers, and crickets.

Plant Life
Mountain laurel, rhododendrons, galax, ivy, ferns, mushrooms, wildflowers, sassafras, birches, dogwoods, sourwoods, blackgums, mountain ash berries, oak trees, pine trees, white pines, spruce and fir trees, red maples, yellow poplars, and eastern hemlocks.

NC Landmarks and Overlooks
Bad Fork Valley, Beacon Heights, Bear Den, Beech Gap, Beetree Gap, Benge Gap, Big Ridge, Big Witch Gap, Black Camp Gap, Black Mountain Gap, Blowing Rock, Bluff Mountain, Brinegar Cabin, Buck Creek Gap, Bull Gap, Cherry Cove, Chestoa View, Cowee Mountains, Crabtree Falls, Crabtree Meadows Recreation Area, Cradle of Forestry in America, Craggy Dome, Craggy Gardens Recreation Area, Craven Gap, Daniel Boone's Trace, Deep Gap, Devils Courthouse, Doughton Park, E. B. Jeffress Park, Elk Pasture Gap, Flat Rock, Gillespie Gap, Glassmine Falls, Grandfather Mountain, Graveyard Fields, Green Knob, John Rock, Julian Price Memorial Park, Jumpinoff Rock, Lake Powhatan, Linville Falls, Looking Glass Rock, The Lump, McKinney Gap, Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, Mount Pisgah, NC Arboretum, Northwest Trading Post, Pisgah National Forest, Richland Balsam, Second Falls, Soco Gap, Stony Bald, Tunnel Gap, Upper Falls, Wagon Road Gap, and Woolyback

External Links
Official Site
The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
The Blue Ridge Parkway Association
Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway