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The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty.

The parkway, which is America's longest linear park, runs for through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, mostly along the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains.

Its southern terminus is on the boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina, from which it travels north to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and offers access to the Skyline Drive.

While the two roads join together end-to-end, they are separate and distinct entities, built as two different projects and managed by two different National Park Service units.

The Blue Ridge Parkway was built to connect Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states.

The state is divided into 100 counties.

The capital is Raleigh.

The most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City.

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 11th largest city in North Carolina.

The city's population was 87,236 according to the 2013 estimates.

It is the principal city in the four-county Asheville metropolitan area, with a population of 424,858 in 2010.

Asheville is home to the United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the world's largest active archive of weather data.

Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.

On the other hand, in the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, the word "walking" is acceptable to describe all forms of walking, whether it is a walk in the park or backpacking in the Alps.

The word hiking is also often used in the UK, along with rambling (a slightly old-fashioned term), hillwalking, and fell walking (a term mostly used for hillwalking in northern England).

The term "bushwalking" is endemic to Australia, having been adopted by the Sydney Bush Walkers club in 1927.

In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called tramping.

It is a popular activity with numerous worldwide, and studies suggest that all forms of walking have health benefits.