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Tunnel repairs close Blue Ridge Parkway

The Blue Ridge Parkway will be closed between Soco Gap in Maggie Valley to the end of the Parkway in Cherokee through the middle of April.

Repairs are being made to the Big Witch Tunnel along that stretch.

Also, another tunnel repair has closed the section of the parkway from milepost 395 to milepost 405 (from the French Broad Parking Overlook to N.C. 151) for work at the to Ferrin Knob Tunnel No. 1.

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