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Title Picnic Area #3 After Ice Storm
Date 1940
Description View of picnic area #3 in Bluff Park, now known as Doughton Park, after an ice storm. Picnic area is located at milepost 238, section 2C on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters and taken by "JEV" in 1940.
Location Location Name: Doughton Park
Parkway Milepost: 241.0
Latitude: 36.40596
Longitude: -81.17425
Creator Individual J.E.V.
Tags Alleghany County (N.C.)
Benches
Bluff Park (N.C.)
Doughton Park (N.C.)
Ice
Landscape
Photographs
Picnic grounds
Scenery
Snow
The Bluffs (N.C.)
Weather
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway