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Attractions near Big Island

A parkway just outside Big Island: Blue Ridge Parkway

Some 16.5M visitors a year come to Blue Ridge Parkway. There is no place to visit inside Big Island; there are 13 within 40 miles. The mix takes in 6 museums, a parkway and a national historical park. Drive 57 mi to reach Appalachian Trail.

Attractions nearby
25
within 60 miles
The big one
in town
Blue Ridge Parkway
National park units
3
parks & monuments
Ski areas
1
Wintergreen Ski Resort
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Parkway · in town

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

What’s around Big Island

Mill Mountain Zoo marks the outer edge, 37 mi away.

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

Everything nearby

The places, one by one

Its 25 places all lie within 60 miles.

Appalachian Trail

Park & preserve · 57 mi west · read 307K times a year on Wikipedia

2,198.4-mile (3,538 km) trail going through fourteen US states managed by the National Park Service.

3.0M visitors a year
Towns near it → · Wikipedia

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

Parks and trails in Big Island → · Big Island’s history →

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

Appalachian Trail: Paulba. Original uploader was Paulbalegend at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Shenandoah National Park: Image copyright 2005 by user G. Edward Johnson (user Lorax) and released under t, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Project Greek Island: Z22, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Appomattox Court House National Historical Park: Doug Coldwell, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Smith Mountain Lake: Jay White, Public domain · Scott Stadium: Mak7912, CC BY-SA 3.0 · John Paul Jones Arena: Bob Mical, CC BY 2.0 · National D-Day Memorial: RebelAt at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial: Jamestown Official Photo Corp., Public domain · Virginia Museum of Transportation: Warfieldian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Market Street Park: Chad Fennell, CC BY 2.0 · Taubman Museum of Art: O Palsson, CC BY 2.0 · Booker T. Washington National Monument: National Park Service Digital Image Archives, Public domain · Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia: Woody Hibbard from Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Robert Russa Moton Museum: William T. Ziglar, Jr., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fralin Museum of Art: SharpCrumbs, CC0 · O. Winston Link Museum: Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Paramount Theater: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Anne Spencer House: Pubdog (talk), Public domain · Staunton River Battlefield State Park: Virginia State Parks, CC BY 2.0 · Lynchburg Courthouse: Pubdog (talk), Public domain

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