{"id":874,"date":"2011-12-23T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T04:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/?p=874"},"modified":"2011-12-23T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T04:04:02","slug":"fall-colors-along-the-blue-ridge-parkway-10-10-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/rattreks\/fall-colors-along-the-blue-ridge-parkway-10-10-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Fall Colors Along the Blue Ridge Parkway &#8211; 10-10-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">With the Fall colors being in almost full peak,\u00a0 my girlfriend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/gallery\/displayimage.php?pid=2899&amp;fullsize=1\" target=\"_blank\">Linda, Daisy the dog, and I<\/a> took a trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway to enjoy them. We started just South of Grandfather Mountain and traveled all the way to Boone, NC. It was crowded but the views and colors were spectacular which made it all worth it. We stopped at the Dollar Store in Newland, NC\u00a0 and just across the street from there was this quaint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/8927.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">little park<\/a> complete with its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/8929.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">waterfalls<\/a>. After stopping there briefly we continued to the high country where the views were breathtaking. The light was intensely bright but I got a few usable photos.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/8999.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/8999_rs.jpg\" alt=\"Viaduct along the Blue Ridge Parkway\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viaduct along the Blue Ridge Parkway<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9031.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9031_rs.jpg\" alt=\"VIaduct along the Blue RIdge Parkway\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIaduct along the Blue RIdge Parkway<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/8968.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/8968_rs.jpg\" alt=\"Brilliant Colors along the Parkway\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brilliant Colors along the Parkway<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9080.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9080_rs.jpg\" alt=\"Awesome views from the parkway !\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Awesome views from the parkway !<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9012.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9012_rs.jpg\" alt=\"View towards the Craggies and Black Mountain Range\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">View towards the Craggies and Black Mountain Range<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9049.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9049_rs.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Colors looking back towards Grandfather Mountain\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fall Colors looking back towards Grandfather Mountain<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9090.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9090_rs.jpg\" alt=\"Vivid colors along the parkway\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivid colors along the parkway<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9069.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9069_rs.jpg\" alt=\"Looking into North Carolina\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking into North Carolina<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9089.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9089_rs.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup of the bursts of colors\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Closeup of the bursts of colors<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9166.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9166_rs.jpg\" alt=\"Views towards the TN side\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Views towards the TN side (although still seeing NC)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9156.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/site_pics8\/9156_rs.jpg\" alt=\"Nice scenery along the Parkway\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nice scenery along the Parkway<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">To see the complete set of photos from this trip, visit our Photo Gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=67\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Fall colors being in almost full peak,\u00a0 my girlfriend Linda, Daisy the dog, and I took a trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway to enjoy them. We started just South of Grandfather Mountain and traveled all the way to Boone, NC. It was crowded but the views and colors were spectacular which made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rattreks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}