Very good!

I wonder what it looks like now….after Helene

In Pennsylvania we don’t pronounce it they way the southerners do. We say appal Ā shins. But we do say appal Ā sha for the regiona and ‘peoples’ south of PA

The valley is just part of the New River Valley

That’s my home!

Have they accounted for Sasquatch in their Biodiversity numbers? I am not joking...

I've never heard of it, despite visiting the park since i was 3 years old (I live in NE Alabama).

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I love that area! I used to live near there! It’s amazing!

I live very close to the GSMNP and have traveled Parsons Branch Road many times. It has been washed out several times and closed for repairs.

5 missing people? Try 900 since the parks founding. Those are the ones known about.

I got locked in Parsons Branch Road years ago. Somehow the gate in the cove was open but the gate at 129 was locked. Sat about three hours waiting for the gate fairy to arrive and release us. Three other cars had followed me, I guess to keep me company during the incarceration.

WHAT A CROCK

Been to the GSM many many time. Gatlinburg , Pigeon Forge have become to touristy and commercial. I'm 60+ years young now, been going since I was a child. Going this year for the CHRISTmas parade by family force. Just got back from the GRAND CANYON, hard place to beat.

Last 2 times I been down in the area I’m constantly tailgated by people going crazy bec I ride the speed limit. Why do people come to scenic areas to run the roads like a race track 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thank you so much for the info. This will be our first trip on the BRPW coming from Virginia through North Carolina to enjoy the fall foliage. Your points will be useful.

It’s so sad they replaced such a lovely park with a horrifying consumerist dystopia. But now that malls are on the way out (slowly but surely), how about we beg the city to demolish the mall and rebuild Opryland!

I agree with comment...NOT SPOOKY...actually Beautiful...if this is SPOOKY, you need to travel more😂

Mount Mitchell is the highest point near Asheville. I was born here. Mount Mitchell is 6684 feet the highest point east of the Mississippi river.

There is a rest area ( like 2 I think) on I-17 between Flagstaff and Phoenix it might b the second one after the big hill everybody overheats on going south there is a big sun dial there unless it's been vandalized that I thought was cool along with beautiful( spell?) scenery(spell? Sorry)really ice

Why do people find these roads spooky??? Are they just not used to being outdoors or in deep woods? I grew up in the Northern Sierra Mountains and the Smokies, to me, where the most gentle, rolling "mountains" I've ever visited. I'm used to a lot harsher mountains. I don't know, nothing about this road is spooky to me. It's beautiful, but again. I grew up driving around old logging roads around Mount Shasta.

Lockman Plain

I wonder how long it's been there. Outdated maybe

“Only 8 miles from the White House”😂 those are DC miles. Each miles is like a 15-20 min drive 😂😂😂

Very informative with spectacular photography.

This was excellent and informative thank you for the fun video. I’ll be there at the end of the month to see if I can make it happen 🎶

I live in Ontario Canada. I remember as a kid our big family vacation every years was driving from Toronto to Chicago to visit Dad's relatives. Along the (Ontario provincial highway) 401 we had service centres which were just like services plazas along your toll routes. with gas and food. Though many of them do have rest areas with picnic tables next to them, though they're only open during the late spring, summer and early fall. Once we crossed into Michigan and took I-94, we'd use the rest areas for bathroom breaks and go to sitdown restaurants (like Bill Knapps) for lunch. It was after we got our dogs that we used the rest areas more, getting take out from fast food places like Arby's, driving to the rest areas and eating there. I also remember once we reached Chicago getting on the Tristate Tollway/I-294 and being amazed by the oases being built overtop the highway. Thanks for the great vid! 👍

The thing about the USA is that English is actually 5 different languages, and everyone that speaks any one of them is always right about how to pronounce any particular word lol.

My back was killing me, so I laid on a picnic table for 10-15 minutes. It was a huge relief.

I am originally from East Tennessee. My favorite place on earth. Many of those areas are secluded because the people who settled there didn't want to be found by British soldiers. They learned to live in the mountains and many didn't and maybe don't want to be disturbed by outsiders. I love how the Appalachias have stayed true to their roots and has not been ruined by progress. The people are some of the greatest in the world. The quiet gives you a chance to see God's workmanship and the silence allows you to talk to Him and hear Him speak to you.

Meh. I left Nashville almost 5 years ago now. Many in the real music scene have. California has moved in and is taking over. They've marred the local neighborhoods beyond repair. They've had music venues literally in eye sight of music row shut down because they had live music on their patio at night. Get that? They moved to Music City USA, bought a place literally at music row, then got mad because there was music at night that they could hear. . . . that is only a tiny smattering of the idiotic changes that the uncontrolled expansion of Nashville has caused and many of us left. There is now a solid cadre of old-school Nashville writers, players, producers, engineers, etc. that have relocated to a different city on the down-low and have bought up the good spots to prevent big music industry cats from hogging them and are happily thriving in an artistic environment that focuses on MUSIC instead of MONEY again. I bought two condos and a small house there. I rent the condos to visiting artists for cheap and keep the small house for myself when I visit. ( _I'm retired now_ ). BEAUTIFUL city. Cool people. And so far we've all been able to keep word from getting out and ruining our good thing. California is a cancer and its people are cancer cells spreading its disease. Fortunately there are few here and those few are watched like hawks. Nashville is a facade now. I still have a boat load of friends there working in the machine and they hate it. Johnny Cash had it right.

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Very well appreciated great job and video. Yes, I am very mesmerized by beautiful sites and that place surely doesn’t disappoint. Going there next year 2025. I have a friend that lives in Mount Sydney, Virginia right off the parkway.

The trees look weird

I'm not sure if I've been on this road..but been to cades cove lots..oddly enough, I've never been afraid in the woods. To me, much more comforting than in a big city..any day.

Hi, what is the best option rod from MD to Tenesy to be in Appalachian hwy? thanks, if you can write the rod # it will help a lot

What’s up! We use to blast tourists with fire extinguishers and sneak in through the fence behind Chaos near the hotel or girls would lick our lips and then our hands to transfer their season pass holder stamps and get us in for free. Me, Sloane, Nick, Tony, Carter, Whitley, Andrew. We’d sneak girls in and make out, they’d steal cigarettes and beer, everyone was smoking and drinking in 8th grade. I got my first blowie on the gondola. It was Nashville’s version of KIDS. There I told the truth but didn’t name names who lost their virginity at what ride. ❤ blame us, we were wild and unsupervised latch key delinquents from all the area public and private junior high schools showing our privates in public haha getting senior citizen high on aluminum coke cans catching Alzheimer’s way early for better or for worst the way this world evolved. “What you really know about the dirty south?” If you want more of the scoop, hmu, I am taking interviews now that most the original Nashvillains have passed away. RIP eighties babies!!! We are the inside scoop haha - if you want the low down and dirty from River Stages to 328 performance hall to dancing in the district love circle the Parthenon and Vanderbilt to legislative plaza XXX and Q-zar from rivergate sk8 to Hendersonville from Starwood amphitheater to KDF from mcgavok to father Ryan berry hill to Hume fogg Hillsboro to Whitehouse the 8th Day raves to laser quest karma and the hip hop and hemp shop I got you covered haha

Please pronounce "hugenot" correctly !! (the "t" is silent) 🤣😂 - great video thanks !

Is overnight rv parking permitted in the pull-offs? I've heard the campgrounds can get full leaving people with little choice on where to park

Amazing music and Video!

Video Arranged beautifully!

I've always pronounced it "ap-ah-LAY-chun", not "ap-ah-LATCH-un".

There is a quiet zone in Virginia for some government reason, secret, shss!

I only knew that name because my family would stop, climb through the wire right there near that sign, and we'd have a quick picnic before hitting the loop. I knew about Sparks Lane, but had never seen a video like this. As a kid I always collected the ghost story books about the park. Thank you for this!

As a kid I grew up in NE Arkansas. I visited Opryland as kid. I lived in Nashville from 1998 to 2002. Oprymills should never replaced Opryland. No one liked the change.

I drove Parsons Branch in 2019 Sept . Loved the solitude and wildlife

You make one mistake at 2:37 when you say that the park and hotel opened the same year. The park opened in 72, the Opry House in 74 and the hotel in November of 1977.

We had bear encounters with bears when we camped in Cades Cove. We had thunderstorms too.

Im not sure when this video was made, but the entire 32 years I have lived in VA, we ALWAYS start school BEFORE Labor Day...

I drove Parsons Branch Road. Found it fascinating and a beautiful drive.