Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot

Freelance writer Tim Pegram is a former park ranger and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      1. Once Upon the Parkway      2. Door Number Three      3. Twelve Years, Eight Months, Forty-One Days      4. Deliberately, Reflectively, Randomly      5. Means of Engagement      6. Milepost Zero      7. One Manpower      8. Boston Knob Overlook      9. Spooked.      10. Ranger Bloopers      11. Taking Flight      12. Stills and Fields      13. Ranger Mischief      14. Beware of Dog      15. Gone Awry      16. Disorderly Conduct      17. Clocking Butterflies and Bumblebees      18. Not of This Earth      19. Weathering Isabel      20. Crossing Paths      21. Death of a Chorus      22. Finding, at Last, the Wild Asparagus      23. Pure Harmony      24. Derailed in Avery County      25. Motorcycles      26. Skulking About      27. Bear!      28. Sunday Solace      29. Balsam Gap District Revisited      30. Swinging Snow Gates      31. The Main Event      32. Local Comparable Rate      33. Cased and Unloaded      34. Milepost 469      Appendix: Noted Parkway Locations and Author’s Schedule      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

“full of vivid descriptions...provides inspiration”—The Mountaineer; “by soaking up Pegram’s highly descriptive prose...readers will feel as if they are sharing every memory and mile. More than a travelogue, this book offers insight into how the soul of a road intertwined with the soul of an author”—Our State; “this book is like taking a one-on-one nature hike with an experienced ranger...a treasure trove of information about the Blue Ridge Parkway...a pleasure to read...Pegram recounts the sights and smells of his journey with an accuracy and detail that betray his many years as a park ranger...a unique perspective...brings together the past and the present of the Blue Ridge Parkway”—Jefferson Post; “Tim Pegram traversed all 469 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2003, and he didn’t settle for a woodsy hike...Pegram describes his journey, interlacing it with anecdotes from his 12 years as a ranger in the Blue Ridge Parkway”—Salisbury Post; “Tim Pegram does a great service to the less adventurous of us who can vicariously share in his colorful and entertaining journey”—The Roanoke Times.