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Attractions near Jefferson

Blue Ridge Parkway, 7 mi from Jefferson

Visits to Blue Ridge Parkway run to about 16.5M a year. None of our places to visit is inside Jefferson; 12 are within 40 miles. There are 2 mountains, 2 theme parks and 2 museums to choose from. A longer outing takes you to Pilot Mountain, 56 mi off.

Attractions nearby
20
within 60 miles
The big one
7 mi
Blue Ridge Parkway
Ski areas
1
Sugar Mountain Resort
Parkway · 7 mi southeast

Blue Ridge Parkway

Scenic parkway that runs between Shenandoah National Park in west central Virginia and Great Smoky National Park in western North Carolina.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Where things are

The map puts most of the 12 to the southwest.

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Orange: Jefferson. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Place by place

Nothing is inside Jefferson itself; these 20 are within 60 miles.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Parkway · 7 mi southeast · read 93K times a year on Wikipedia

Scenic parkway that runs between Shenandoah National Park in west central Virginia and Great Smoky National Park in western North Carolina.

16.5M visitors a year
Towns near it → · Official site · Wikipedia

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Jefferson → · Jefferson’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Grandfather Mountain: Original uploader was KyleAndMelissa22 at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Mount Rogers: USDA-FS, Public domain · Pilot Mountain: Berean Hunter, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Grayson Highlands State Park: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Cherokee National Forest: Ryan Rice at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Linville Gorge Wilderness: No machine-readable author provided. Amcbride~commonswiki assumed (based on copy, Public domain · Sugar Mountain Resort: Mark Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Linville Falls: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Barter Theatre: RebelAt (talk) (Uploads), Public domain · Moses H. Cone Memorial Park: Bill Russ photographer, Public domain · Blue Ridge Music Center: RMLark, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Col. Silas Alexander Sharpe House: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D., CC BY-SA 4.0

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