The Blue Ridge Parkway, often called "America's Most Scenic Road," travels 469 miles from the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. This "sanctuary of high places" reaches its highest and some of its most remote spots in Jackson County.

Access the Parkway at Balsam Gap, the intersection with N.C. 215 Northeast of Cashiers, at Soco Gap in Haywood County, or at the Parkway's terminus in Cherokee.