{"id":4194,"date":"2017-08-22T04:09:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2017-08-22T04:09:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T04:09:25","slug":"u-s-route-221-us-321-bus-to-blue-ridge-pkwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=4194","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Route 221, US-321 Bus to Blue Ridge Pkwy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nc\/221\/321blowingrocktobrp\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"867\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Blowing Rock Hwy and Main St, Blowing Rock<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield after the 321 Business split as we head out of Blowing Rock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nc\/221\/321blowingrocktobrp\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-221 and Shulls Mill Rd, Watauga Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A couple miles out of Blowing Rock, we&#8217;ll approach an indirect connection to the Blue Ridge Pkwy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nc\/221\/321blowingrocktobrp\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"929\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-221 and Shulls Mill Rd, Watauga Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn right to access the Blue Ridge Parkway via a forest service road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nc\/221\/brptobrp\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-221 and Shulls Mill Rd, Watauga Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No reassurance shield after the turnoff to the parkway, but the road goes downhill in plow quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nc\/221\/brptobrp\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-221 and Valley High Ln, Watauga Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In two miles, we&#8217;ll have a good view of Grandfather Mountain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nc\/221\/brptobrp\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"812\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-221 and Clarence Newton Rd, Watauga Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Another of the same shortly thereafter. Honestly, I&#8217;m not sure what these signs are supposed to mean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nc\/221\/brptobrp\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"817\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-221 and Blue Ridge Pkwy, Avery Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As we cross into Avery County, we&#8217;ll approach the Blue Ridge Parkway again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nc\/221\/brptobrp\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"948\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-221 and Blue Ridge Pkwy, Avery Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn right to connect to the parkway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/us221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=4195\">\u00a0S to NC-105<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=4193\">N to US-321\/US-321 Bus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/brp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"54\" height=\"70\" \/>\u00a0S to NC-181, N to US-221\/US-321<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/us321bus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"105\" \/>\u00a0S to US-321, N to US-221\/US-321<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Blowing Rock Hwy and Main St, Blowing Rock Reassurance shield after the 321 Business split as we head out of Blowing Rock. Location: US-221 and Shulls Mill Rd, Watauga Cty A couple miles out of Blowing Rock, we&#8217;ll approach an indirect connection to the Blue Ridge Pkwy. Location: US-221 and Shulls Mill Rd, Watauga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}