End to End: Cycling the Blue Ridge Parkway 

Would you guys like a more in depth video about details of our route? Like where to stay? Where to get lunch, etc? If so, like this comment or reply.

I used to take groups of friends and sometimes the OSU cycling team to Asheville for bike trips. We spent lots of time on and off the parkway. Generally 500 miles in 5-6 days and it's such a beautiful area of the country. We would ride daily From downtown Asheville to Marshall, NC, or to Bat Cave or to Pisgah or to Hot Springs or to Lake Lure. What started it all was a ride from Asheville to the top of Mount Mitchell (ouch). So inspiring to see you guys ride this - we talked about doing it every year - now I am not sure it's possible. Thank you for putting such an amazing video together and creating such an inspiring video. Loved the editing, the music and the tempo. Seemed like you guys all got on well.

Thanks for the shout out. Your video did such a great job displaying this epic route!

In May 1981, six of us rode Front Royal, VA to the end in the Smokies in 6 days. This included the Skyline Drive. We had a van along and switched drivers every 10 miles. We also took the Mt. Mitchel side trip. It was the best bike trip in America I ever did. We camped at Parkway campsites and took French w---e baths with a porta shower heating the water on a Coleman stove.

RU-vid randomly recommended your video to me. I am so glad! What a nice documentary of a ride! Very well edited. Thank you! I am glad that you rode up to Mt. Mitchel. That climb, after all the miles is no joke. Anyway, thanks for making the video. All the best! P.S. The camera just doesn't do it justice for how steep those climbs and descends are. I think the fastest I ever went on a bike was approaching Mt. Mitchel at 42 MPH, and it felt sketchy as hell. P.P.S I really liked the end of the video where everyone had a chance to reflect. Thanks!

very nice thx , Brazil

Fantastic trip and video. I've done the Parkway by motorcycle several times and loved it, but cycling up those long grades is a whole other kettle of fish. Kudos to you all!

What a cool adventure!!

I've spent many painful, cold, wet, hot and priceless miles on Chief Ladiga, the Comet and the Parkway. Some on a moto and some on a pedal bike. Thanks for the memories!

Thanks, great job on the video and much greater job riding the whole Blue Ridge Parkway. I lived 2 miles from it near Boone and Blowing Rock in 1999 and loved riding on it. I rode from the north end of Skyline drive all the way back to Boone on Memorial Day weekend Friday thru Monday with a friend who drove a support truck with camping gear. I biked he went off hiking, he loved day hikes so kept himself entertained. We met up at the camp grounds at the end of the day. Later I and a buddy rode the southern portion. from Boone almost to Cherokee, but ran out of daylight and maybe legs. Skyline and Blue Ridge are the best roads and long rides in America. However, You are not far from the Natchez Trace another 400 plus mile park I wanted to ride. Flat but probably a good bike tour. The coasts of Oregon and California are also really beautiful and like the parkway average about 100 feet of climbing per mile, but a lot of traffic and when you cross from Oregon to California going south you lose the 3 foot shoulder and get a white line, that's it, but the trucks and motor homes keep coming. If you get to the northwest, 212 southwest of Billings MT through Red Lodge climbs to about 11,000 feet over Bear Tooth Pass and heads into north Yellowstone. It has been called the most beautiful road in America. Incredibly beautiful from the top with view of the Grand Tetons. Also, up there ride "going to the sun pass" in Glacier National Park, just a long climb on the side of a mountain but awesome. North from there in Canada is Ice Fields Parkway which is constantly extremely beautiful. The Canadians often have wide shoulders, and Ice Field's shoulders were maybe 8 feet wide, but there were expansion cracks about every 20 feet and I was riding a Bike Friday with 20 inch wheels so it wasn't perfect. You've got a good group for bike adventures, keep it up.

Y'all don't play around when talking about going on a bike ride. Glad to see such a great accomplishment.

Loved your video. Did Waynesville to Water Rock Knob three times and back and Waynesville to the highest point a couple of times and from Waynesville to Graveyard Fields once all in my late 50’s. I’m 69 now and the mountain house was sold a eight years ago. Always solo to movie soundtracks and absolutely no screaming descents. Now confined to the Tampa Bay Area with zero hills. Congrats!

Fun trip. I thought y'all were bike packing. That would've saved a lot of miles into towns. I think y'all were lucky no one snatched your bikes. The silver comet is a fun ride, I would edit the video and put in the pumpkinvine creek trestle and that tunnel I can't remember the name of on the silver comet. Glad the trip was fun, Amtrak is fun too.

Great trip. Wonderful video, and Boy Oh Boy, am I envious!

Enjoyed your video and thanks for the effort to edit and post it. My wife and I were in NC about 3 weeks ago and drove the BRP from Asheville to Boone. Being a cyclist (roadie) here in Northern California I had to make sure to say hi and chat up any cyclists we saw on vista pullouts. What an amazing road...one of the best in the US!!

Thanks for putting this video together. On my list!

A great, inspirational ride! Thanks for taking us along. I love the BRP!

Astounding trip. Excellent videography. Inspirational. Thanks from So. Oregon.

Cool! Hey from Richmond

You guy’s did really great, keep it up.

What a beautifully rendered video guys! The variety and quality of the imagery and audio throughout was so engaging and thoughtfully chosen and your personal reflections on the whole of the ride were both interesting and helpful. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. 🚴‍♀️👍

Excellent video, I thought your music choices were perfect and added a nice rhythm and energy to the production. I grew up in Charlottesville and this was amazingly nostalgic!

What an epic adventure!!! I spent 3 summers working in NC. I worked at the Pisgah Inn in the summer of 2022. I have traveled almost wll the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, minus some near the Virginia State line. I need to Explore the Skyline in more depth and have only been to the very Northern part. Thanks for sharing your journey and those Blue Ridge Mountains take your breath away.

Best bike video ever! You guys rock. Loved the scenery and love your music choices! I enjoyed getting to know a little about you guys. I’ve known Jeremy for almost 42 years. 😉

WOW, great video! Well done!

Beautiful ❤️

Your entire day 3 is practically my back yard! I know that section of the parkway like the back of my hand. There's quite a bit of mountain bike trails and gravel roads that intersect giving endless possibilities for routes. It's absolutely beautiful. Floyd, the start of your day 4, has some of the best gravel on the face of the earth in my opinion. There's a handful of gravel events throughout the year up here also if you're ever interested! Floyd has the Appalachian Journey and the Tour de Dirt, New Castle (about 30 minutes outside Roanoke) has the Appalachian Mountaineer, and there's a handful more. Great video!

Good film, epic adventure

Loved your video…the scenery on the parkway is very picturesque…never cycled on the parkway myself but it’s on my bucket list…my hats off to you guys doing the entire route

What a small world. I'm a cyclist, originally from Waynesboro, VA, and watching your video in Guam. Your video definitely makes me miss riding back home. There actually used to be a rather large cycle store across the street from the sign that you show around the 9:18 mark.

Very nice video. Thanks for taking the time and effort to do this. Enjoyed so much it’s got me excited to try that ride.

Thanks for the content. Good ride 💫

I like this, from Italy. =)

Did just the NC section from VA border to Cherokee years ago. We used a chase SUV and hotels. Enjoyed it, but the road surface wasn't the best for those highspeed downhill sections sometimes, and the loud Harley Davidson motorcycles would scare the - blank - out of you when they went by. Enjoyed watching your ride to and down the BRP. 😁

Enjoyed that! Well done guys!

Please provide music playlist! Really cool!

Well done! In the first minute when I realized this was a “hotel” ride, I thought y’all were nuts. Anytime you venture from the BRP into a town, the vertical back up is HARD! 👏👏🚴🏼

Beautiful ride but it's tough 😮

Great ride, another thing on my bucket list. Thanks for sharing.

That was an awesome inspiring video, thanks for sharing.

Excellent video thank you. This is on my bucket list for sure

Thanks for posting this. I am thinking of riding the Blue Ridge. It is nice to see what it is like on the road.

I wand to do this at some point (Skyline Drive + Blueridge PKWY; but I'm not much of a roadie. Do you think this is somewhat safe? I'm a little concerned with other motorists not paying much attention. The lack of commercial traffic is definitely a big +.

Epic ride.

Out East estimate temperature dropping about 4 deg F for every 1,000 ft of elevation increase. Dew points reaching saturation (the clouds) will dramatically impact the chill factor. Mountains make their own weather and where you may be has nothing to do with the forecast for populated areas. Out East note the temperature and dew point in the aviation forecast, this will give you a good idea of where their cloud bases start using the 4 deg/1,000 ft rule of thumb. Also note the current and projected winds at 6,000 ft. Anything over 10 mph could spell trouble if the temperature and dew point trends are going in the wrong direction unless you are prepared for freezing wet conditions. Always carry a Satellite communications device - the observation of vast views of wilderness are spot on (especially NC) and cell service may be a long way away.

Great trip!

Enjoyed the video! I live in Charlottesville, so the Parkway and Skyline Drive are my go-to destinations. I did the BRP S to N this year as a 7-day solo trip in June, so I enjoyed revisiting the ride with you!

Blue Ridge Parkway was built as a military access highway

Very cool!

this is pretty well put together dude. Beautiful scenery

Awesome! I LOVE the BRP and have done it many times in my 1969 VW Camper. I’ve often considered a bike packing trip on it. I’ve also done BRAG, isn’t it great?!

it's been over 50 years since I have been on the blueridge partway.

wait, you rode from Anniston to Atlanta -- there is a trail???...AWESOME!

What time of year did you ride? I’d love to do this but want to avoid the foggy seasons. Great video, thanks!

EXCELLENT video. You clearly spent a lot of time and effort putting it together, and it shows. Some really clever techniques that the wife and I will try to emulate when we do our next one. We've done The Katy twice and The Gap/C&O stateside, and a slew of tours in SE Asia/NZealand and have done a few vids, but they're pretty amateur in comparison. While I love climbing, the wife not so much, but I'll TRY to get her to consider this one. It's a long way from Oz, but we DO visit stateside (my former country) on a fairly regular basis, so maybe.....? Thanks for all the hard work.

Very inspiring! My buddies have been talking about making this trip for years. Would be grateful if you could share the route plan?

What gearing did you run? Awesome video! Nice editing.

Thanks for the inspiration. Do you think the deraileur problem was due to poor handling by Amtrak?

Great Video, thanks for sharing. I just finished the Mountains to Coast Ride arcoss North Carolina, I loved Blowing Rock as well. Do you have link the the ride with Gps route ?

Nice, Do you have the route in Ride with GPS, Garmin or Strava you could share?

do you have a copy of this route? Garmin or ride with gps?

Gotta love those sidewalks to nowhere...

so yo took he train from Atlanta to DC I'm guessing?? How did you from DC to Waynesboro - riding?

So tell us, how did you get home? Cherokee isn’t close to anything and Asheville is 40 miles back uphill.

Great ride!!! Looking at riding Pittsburgh to DC in 2024. Hit me up if interested in more adventures. (I’m in Atlanta and have ridden across the country, BRP and looking for my next adventure)

How do y’all handle riding with no shoulders on the road, blind curves, and traffic. Your video is great- but I’m too chicken to ride the parkway.

I want to do this and have had to bail 2x for people who didn't train. I"m worried about the traffic situation with cars now and need to do some research

50 years cycling America, at least 200 trips on Amtrak ment 200 boxes. And you come along and just hand your bike to the baggage handler? Yes I’m asking about to rules on bike transport on Amtrak, how that go for you? I like your video, just need a bit more information to help thous of us who might want to plan a trip like yours. Tip, install a triple crank or a mountain gear range save your knees spin up the long grades!

Buena Vista wasn't good enough???