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The Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel Foundation secured a $749,000 grant through the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to begin Phase I of the project to reopen the long-closed tunnel with a bike path and hiking trail. Phase I will be a footpath from the former Afton rail depot to a concrete ...
[citation needed] Over 50 years later, still passable in the early 21st century, portions of the old tunnels and route were included in a rail trail project. The $1.6 million project is planned to turn the main Blue Ridge Tunnel into a "dark, chilly and 'mystical' hiking and biking trail". [4]
Tunnel Hill State Trail tunnel, abandoned rail tunnel, 543-foot-long (166 m) former Cairo and Vincennes Railroad tunnel now part of Tunnel Hill State Trail, used as a hiking and bike rail trail, between Tunnel Hill and Vienna in Johnson County; Van Buren Street Tunnel, streetcar tunnel, Van Buren Street under the Chicago River in Chicago, abandoned
Ice forms in a tunnel along the Blue Ridge Parkway, causing park officials to close the gates from milepost 458-469 Nov. 1 due to icy conditions, especially in Licklog Tunnel.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is once again completely open for travel in Western North Carolina two weeks after being closed due to black bear activity. Blue Ridge Parkway reopens in Asheville area ...
Blue Ridge Railroad, Greenwood Tunnel (bypassed) 1853 1983 Blue Ridge Railroad: Greenwood: Albemarle County: VA-5: Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Blue Ridge Tunnel: 1944 1983 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Rockfish Gap: Afton: Nelson
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.
oldest road tunnel in the United States, originally a rail tunnel Blue Mountain Tunnel: Lurgan Township, northern Franklin County: I-76 (Pennsylvania Turnpike) 4,339 feet (1,323 m) [49] Corliss Tunnel: Pittsburgh: Corliss Street Norfolk Southern Railroad: 420 feet (130 m) 1914 Fort Pitt Tunnel: Pittsburgh I-376: Mount Washington: 3,614 feet ...