I've led tours when I was quite a bit younger, around my school during the summers, when families would want to see what it was like.
Now I love taking friends for their first time to Mt. Mitchell on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
I have many other neat places to go as well. As my aging has kept me from hiking in the beautiful woods, at least there are many sites which are available to us drivers/minimal walkers.
A rather low overlook close to home. We tried to limit the places we stopped!
At Craggy Gardens Picnic area, the day was absolutely perfect for looking for miles in every direction. And being Thursday before the big Labor Day weekend, it was vacant!
The little visitors center at Craggy Bald is always a fun place to stop along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Just a glimpse of Burnett Reservoir shows behind all those leaves. The reservoir is low because the dam is being worked on.
We kept taking selfies, mostly with only half of my face!
Onward we went...Mt. Mitchell is next!
