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Portion of Blue Ridge Parkway near Blowing Rock reopens

Bikers pedal their way up a stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway. A portion of the Parkway near Blowing Rock has been reopened after being impacted by Hurricane Helene. AP Photo/Alan Marler

Bikers pedal their way up a stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway. A portion of the Parkway near Blowing Rock has been reopened after being impacted by Hurricane Helene. AP Photo/Alan Marler

A portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Blowing Rock area has been reopened to traffic.

According to a news release, the open corridor is between milepost 285.5 at Bamboo Gap and milepost 305 near Beacon Heights.

Parkway officials say that destinations open to visitors include Bass Lake, the Moses Cone Manor House parking lot and carriage trails, and the Price Lake picnic area.

Visitors are urged to exercise caution when hiking on other trails within the specified corridor as they may encounter hazards such as landslides, tree debris, and washouts.

This is the first section of the roadway to open in North Carolina since Hurricane Helene.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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