Motorcycle Ride Planner · United States

Blue Ridge Parkway — Buchanan to Buena Vista

United States · measured from OpenStreetMap geometry

Blue Ridge Parkway runs 12 miles between Buchanan and Buena Vista. We counted 532 corners along it, which works out at 44.3 a mile — corner after corner with no let-up. It runs past mountain peaks, a ridge line, a nature reserve and a waterfall. That puts it in the busiest tenth of every road we have measured in the United States, where the median is 19.4 a mile.

Ridden together with SR 614 and VA 122 it makes about 17 more miles of the same kind of road.

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Worth stopping for

• 0.4 miviewpointOnion Mountain Overlook
• 0.4 miviewpointSmall waterfall
• 0.7 miviewpointBlack Rock Hill Overlook
• 0.9 miviewpointTerrapin Mountain Overlook
• 1.0 miwaterfallApple Orchard Falls
• 1.1 miviewpointThunder Ridge Overlook
• 1.5 miviewpointArnold Valley Overlook
• 2.1 miviewpointApple Orchard Mountain Overlook
• 2.2 miviewpointHeadforemost Mountain Overlook

Roads near here

• SR 6145 mi away · 304 corners
• VA 1225 mi away · 149 corners
• SR 74613 mi away · 452 corners
• SR 74613 mi away · 261 corners
• SR 68014 mi away · 205 corners
• Blue Ridge Parkway16 mi away · 190 corners

How we measured it

Corner counts come from the road's own geometry in OpenStreetMap, not from ratings or votes. Every bend above a threshold of curvature is counted once, so two roads can be compared directly. Nothing here is crowdsourced and nobody paid to appear.