Majestic Clouds Sunrise Blue Ridge Parkway Smoky Mountains Art
by Reid Callaway
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Majestic Clouds Sunrise Blue Ridge Parkway Smoky Mountains Art
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Reid Callaway
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Photograph - Photography
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Majestic Clouds Sunrise.....by Reid Callaway
Blue Ridge Parkway
Smoky Mountains Art
During my sunrise shoot on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Brevard, NC these cloud waves, I call them, began to slip over the mountains tops and flow down thru the forest into the valley, 1,000 feet below me. This is Pink Beds Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway. If you look closely in the top right you will see the Blue Ridge Parkway road itself as it winds around the mountain above.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty. It runs for 469 miles (755 km) through twenty-nine Virginia and North Carolina counties, mostly along the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains. Its southern terminus is on the boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina, from which it travels north to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and offers access to the Skyline Drive. While the two roads join together end-to-end, they are separate and distinct entities, built as two different projects and managed by two different National Park Service units. The Blue Ridge Parkway was built to connect Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The parkway, while not a National Park, has been the most visited unit of the National Park System every year since 1946 except two (1949, 2013). Land on either side of the road is owned and maintained by the National Park Service and, in many places, parkway land is bordered by United States Forest Service property. The parkway is on North Carolina's version of the America the Beautiful quarter in 2015.
The Blue Ridge Parkway tunnels were constructed through the rock; one in Virginia and twenty-five in North Carolina. Sections of the parkway near the tunnels are often closed in winter. (Due to dripping groundwater from above, freezing temperatures, and the lack of sunlight, ice often accumulates inside these areas even when the surrounding areas are above freezing.) The highest point on the parkway (south of Waynesville, near Mount Pisgah in North Carolina) is 6053 feet or 1845 m above sea level (AMSL) on Richland Balsam Mountain at Milepost 431, and is often closed from November to April due to inclement weather such as snow, fog, and even freezing fog from low clouds. The parkway is carried across streams, railway ravines and cross roads by 168 bridges and six viaducts.
The parkway runs from the southern terminus of Shenandoah National Park's Skyline Drive in Virginia at Rockfish Gap to U.S. Route 441 at Oconaluftee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cherokee, North Carolina. There is no fee for using the parkway; however, commercial vehicles are prohibited without approval from the Park Service Headquarters, near Asheville, North Carolina. The roadway is not maintained in the winter, and sections which pass over especially high elevations and through tunnels are often impassable and therefore closed from late fall through early spring. Weather is extremely variable in the mountains, so conditions and closures often change rapidly. The speed limit is never higher than 45 mph (72 km/h) and lower in some sections.
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December 31st, 2016
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Reid Callaway
Thank you Jacki Lutzow for appreciating my artwork and for making this image one of your personal Favorites! 1/5/2024
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Thank you Claudia Kukulka for appreciating my artwork and making this image one of personal Favorites! 8/6/2019
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Thank you to the buyer from Cape Elizabeth, ME for the purchase of my image “Majestic Clouds” printed on a coffee mug. May this image bring back memories of the Great Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge Parkway! 7/30/2019
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