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Attractions near Bristol

Blue Ridge Parkway, 39 mi from Bristol

Each year, some 16.5M people go to Blue Ridge Parkway. The town has no place on our list of its own; 11 are within 40 miles. They include 2 mountains, a parkway and a state park. A drive of 59 mi brings you to Mount Mitchell.

Attractions nearby
22
within 60 miles
The big one
59 mi
Mount Mitchell
National park units
1
parks & monuments
Ski areas
2
Sugar Mountain Resort
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Mountain · 59 mi south

Mount Mitchell

Highest mountain in the Eastern United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Where to go

The map puts most of the 11 to the southeast.

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

Everything nearby

Every entry

22 places make the list, every one within 60 miles.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Parkway · 39 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 Bristol → · Bristol’s history →

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

Mount Mitchell: Unknown, Public domain · Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Grandfather Mountain: Original uploader was KyleAndMelissa22 at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Mount Rogers: USDA-FS, Public domain · United States Penitentiary: Nyttend, Public domain · Black Mountain: iLoveMountains.org, CC BY 2.0 · 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 · Breaks Interstate Park: SheepNotGoats (Talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sugar Mountain Resort: Mark Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Linville Falls: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Barter Theatre: RebelAt (talk) (Uploads), Public domain · Andrew Johnson National Historic Site: Brian Stansberry, CC BY 3.0 · Moses H. Cone Memorial Park: Bill Russ photographer, Public domain

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