Highway 221

Blue Ridge Parkway NP- North Carolina, National Parks, North Carolina, Road Trip, States

We headed south this morning but not along the parkway this time. We got off on US-221, hoping to get ice and coffee at Grandfather Country Store but we were too early for that so we continued south along this road alongside the BRP.  We were treated to the sight of huge boulders and the Linville Viaduct. We stopped for a meal at the Tartan Restaurant near Grandfather Mountain. At one point we did a U-turn  in order to get two more bottles of Cherry Bounce at the winery. In many ways this drive is just as fascinating as the driving on the Parkway!

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