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A National Parkway is a designation for a protected area in the United States given to scenic roadways with a protected corridor of surrounding parkland. National Parkways often connect cultural or historic sites. [1] The U.S. National Park Service manages the parkways.
The George Washington Memorial Parkway, colloquially the G.W. Parkway, [3] [4] is a 25-mile-long (40 km) limited-access parkway that runs along the south bank of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, Virginia, northwest to McLean, Virginia, and is maintained by the National Park Service (NPS).
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 the longest linear park in the U.S., [3] runs for 469 miles (755 km) through 29 counties in Virginia and North Carolina, linking Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
U.S. Route 385 (US 385) is a north-south U.S. highway that runs from Big Bend National Park in Texas to Deadwood, South Dakota. In Texas, the highway runs from Big Bend National Park to the Oklahoma state line, north of Dalhart. US 385 is part of the La Entrada al Pacifico trade corridor from Interstate 10 in Fort Stockton to Interstate 20 in ...
Gravelly Point is an area within the National Park Service's George Washington Memorial Parkway in Arlington County, Virginia. [1] It is located on the west side of the Potomac River, immediately north of Roaches Run and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. [1] Gravelly Point visitors watching an aircraft land in April 1973.
Between the Route 89 intersection and Route 36 is only one rest area, called Bogard. SR 44 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System, [3] and is part of the National Highway System, [4] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration. [5]
The former toll roads in Kentucky that bear the name "parkway" have been moved to a category outside this structure, as they were not constructed as scenic roads. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
United States Numbered Highways are the components of a national system of highways administered by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), a nonprofit, nonpartisan association, [3] and the various state departments of transportation.