<P> The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All - American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty . The parkway, which is America's longest linear park, runs for 469 miles (755 km) through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park . It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains . Its southern terminus is at U.S. 441 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 . The roadway continues through Shenandoah as Skyline Drive, a similar scenic road which is managed by a different National Park Service unit . </P> <P> The parkway has been the most visited unit of the National Park System every year since 1946 except three (1949, 2013, and 2016). 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 was on North Carolina's version of the America the Beautiful quarter in 2015 . </P> <P> Begun during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the project was originally called the Appalachian Scenic Highway . Most construction was carried out by private contractors under federal contracts under an authorization by Harold L. Ickes in his role as federal public works administrator . Work began on September 11, 1935, near Cumberland Knob in North Carolina; construction in Virginia began the following February . On June 30, 1936, Congress formally authorized the project as the Blue Ridge Parkway and placed it under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service . Some work was carried out by various New Deal public works agencies . The Works Progress Administration did some roadway construction . Crews from the Emergency Relief Administration carried out landscape work and development of parkway recreation areas . Personnel from four Civilian Conservation Corps camps worked on roadside cleanup, roadside plantings, grading slopes, and improving adjacent fields and forest lands . During World War II, the CCC crews were replaced by conscientious objectors in the Civilian Public Service program . </P> <P> The parkway's construction created jobs in the region, but also displaced many residents and created new rules and regulations for landowners, including requirements related to how farmers could transport crops . Residents could no longer build on their lands without permission, or develop land except for agricultural use . They were not permitted to use the parkway for any commercial travel but were required to transport equipment and materials on side roads . </P>

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