Blue Ridge Parkway

“Driving Through Time” is an innovative website built in collaboration with academic partners that highlights multiple perspectives on the complicated, and often contentious, history of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

This finding aid describes the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) Southest Region Collection, part of the NPS History Collection.

A guide to the photographs, slides, films and papers of Thomas J. Allen, who rose from seasonal ranger at Mount Rainier to NPS assistant director and regional director over a 45-year career.

Helene closed all 469 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2024. A small uncrewed aircraft module from Acadia National Park flew 76 flights in nine days, documenting landslides and wrecked infrastructure that crews on the ground couldn't reach.