The Craggy Gardens and Mount Pisgah picnic areas both opened May 25 and will remain open through Oct. 28. Other facilities on the Parkway’s route through Western North Carolina — The Pisgah Inn & Restaurant, Mount Pisgah Campground, Waterrock Knob Visitor Center and Asheville Visitor Center — opened earlier in the year. 

While the Parkway typically remains free of weather-related closures during the summer months, a real-time road map at go.nps.gov/brp-map is updated to reflect all types of closures along the route. 

A closure of the Linn Cove Viaduct at Milepost 304 will continue for some time as the season begins due to an ongoing road maintenance project. The project began in March, but continued and heavy rainfall in the area has delayed completion. The final steps to complete the project require at least 48 hours of dry weather. Project managers will resume and complete the project once conditions improve. Rainfall has also closed the original detour route on a section of U.S. 221 around the Viaduct due to a road washout; an alternate route uses N.C. 105.