Documenting the American South

Docsouth Home
The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
See Larger Image

About this Item

Title Heavy Slide
Date 1940
Description View of "heavy slide" or rock slide on milepost 276-291, section 2F of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters and taken by A.S. Burns in 1940.
Location Location Name: Section 2F
Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 36.207267
Longitude: -81.60265
Creator Individual A.S. Burns
Tags Photographs
Road conditions
Road construction
Rock embankments
Rocks
Rock slides
Watauga County (N.C.)
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway