Documenting the American South

Docsouth Home
The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
See Larger Image

About this Item

Title Trail, Environmental Sign and View at Beacon Heights, MP 305.1
Date August 1971
Description Environmental sign on a trail near milepost 305.1 and "Bluffs District" on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Sign reads "the land of our better selves is most surely reached by walking."
Location Location Name: Milepost 305
Parkway Milepost: 305.0
Latitude: 36.087979
Longitude: -81.827676
Creator Individual Robert G. Bruce
Tags Avery County (N.C.)
Fills (Earthwork)
Linville (N.C.)
Photographs
Signs and signboards
Trails
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway