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Appalachian Ridge
Blue Ridge, Smokies · 12 tours · GPS-triggered narration that plays automatically as you explore.
The Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains hold stories of moonshiners, folk musicians, and the communities who've called these ancient mountains home for generations. Drive the most scenic stretches with narration that captures the soul of Appalachia.
12 tours in Appalachian Ridge
Each tour triggers narration automatically based on your GPS location. Pick one and start exploring.
Blue Ridge Parkway: Asheville to Mt Mitchell
Drive the highest stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway from the arts hub of Asheville to the summit of Mt Mitchell, the tallest peak east of the Mississippi. Hear tales of moonshiners, folk musicians, and the CCC workers who built this road.
View tour details →Savannah Historic District Walk
America's most haunted city, laid out in 24 perfect squares by General Oglethorpe in 1733. Spanish moss, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and the bench where Forrest Gump ate chocolates.
View tour details →Shenandoah Valley Skyline Drive
Drive the iconic Skyline Drive along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains through Shenandoah National Park. One hundred and five miles of mountain panoramas, Appalachian trail crossings, and the stories of the families who called these hollows home before the park was born.
View tour details →Blue Ridge: Southern Highlands Section
Blue Ridge: Southern Highlands Section — a driving tour in the Appalachian region.
View tour details →Great Smoky Mountains Cades Cove Loop Drive
Drive the 11-mile one-way loop through Cades Cove, the most visited road in America's most visited national park. This broad valley ringed by misty mountains preserves pioneer homesteads, log churches, and a landscape where black bears, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys still roam the meadows the Cherokee once called home.
View tour details →Detroit Riverwalk to Midtown Walk
Detroit's resurrection story in one walk. From the gleaming towers of the Renaissance Center along the revitalized riverwalk, through the canyon streets of downtown where the Guardian Building's Art Deco tile work rivals anything in Manhattan, to Midtown where the Detroit Institute of Arts houses Diego Rivera's industry murals. Ends at the reborn Michigan Central Station — the building that symbolized Detroit's decline and now anchors its comeback.
View tour details →Blue Ridge: Linn Cove Viaduct Section
Blue Ridge: Linn Cove Viaduct Section — a driving tour in the Appalachian region.
View tour details →Charleston Historic District Walk
America's best-preserved colonial city — Rainbow Row's candy-coloured houses, the Old Slave Mart Museum, St. Michael's bells ringing since 1764, and the harbour where the Civil War began. Beautiful and complicated in equal measure.
View tour details →Blue Ridge Parkway — Asheville Section Drive
America's most visited national parkway — from the Biltmore Estate's French Renaissance grandeur to Craggy Gardens' rhododendron tunnels. Every overlook is a different painting. At milepost 364, the Blue Ridge drops away and the Great Smokies appear.
View tour details →Savannah to Tybee Island Drive
A drive from the moss-draped squares of Savannah through the coastal marshlands of Georgia to the windswept beaches of Tybee Island. Along the way, you'll pass a cemetery that inspired a bestselling novel, a colonial-era fort guarding the Savannah River, and a lighthouse that has watched over the Georgia coast since 1736. This is the Low Country at its most atmospheric — salt marshes, military history, and island charm.
View tour details →Shenandoah Skyline Drive — Central Section
Drive 35 miles along the spine of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains from Big Meadows to Thornton Gap. This central section of Skyline Drive passes through forests that were stripped bare a century ago and have grown back so completely that the Civilian Conservation Corps camps that rebuilt them have vanished beneath the canopy. Overlooks reveal the Shenandoah Valley to the west and the Piedmont to the east.
View tour details →Outer Banks Drive
North Carolina's Outer Banks — a 200-mile ribbon of barrier islands where the Wright Brothers first flew, Blackbeard met his end, and four historic lighthouses still warn ships away from the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." The drive south from Kitty Hawk to Ocracoke threads through wild dunes, marshland, and villages that feel like the mainland forgot them. More than 5,000 shipwrecks lie offshore.
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