Blue Ridge Parkway function carries on, some repairs to wrap by June

April 12, 2022 Off By iwano@_84

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – If the Blue Ridge Parkway is on your checklist for outings this spring, you are going to want to keep a number of points in brain. Some detours are nonetheless in area along the Parkway simply because of scheduled maintenance function and since of a landside approximately two many years ago on the Parkway.

We invited Leesa Brandon, a Parkway spokesperson, on to the Digital Information Desk to stroll us by it.

Brandon stated the work staying accomplished appropriate now on the Roanoke River Bridge is expected to wrap up in June. That operate has included concrete repairs to the piers, drainage and asphalt replacement. When which is finished, tourists will the moment again be equipped to use that bridge to obtain Investigate Park.

“And the recent accessibility to examine park from the Blue Ridge Parkway is to go south of Examine Park and leap on the Blue Ridge Parkway there at 220 and then travel north on the Parkway to get up to Check out Park,” she defined.

The other challenge is function to maintenance a landslide that took place two decades ago and the street has been shut there at any time since. Major rain in spring of 2020 harmed extra than 150 toes of highway at milepost 127. Then crews uncovered yet another slide fewer than 10 miles down the highway.

Brandon mentioned the Park Company has been doing the job given that then to develop a plan and safe crisis cash to resolve it. Operate is slated to start off this spring on the two sections of road.

“So that work on the ground will begin going on, now that the weather is warming up just in the next couple of weeks, and we hope to see that stretch of the Parkway totally opened and fixed by the end of this time,” she stated, noting it must be wrapped up by September.

Until these projects are complete, drivers will will need to carry on utilizing the detours outlined below.