Blue Ridge Parkway
A scenic road winding along the mountains, with a flowering dogwood in the foreground.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a beautiful scenic road that runs long along the Blue Ridge Mountains in the eastern United States. Winding along the ridgeline from the state of Virginia to the state of North Carolina, it is famous as a place where you can admire the mountain scenery that changes with the seasons while driving.
The reverse of the coin depicts a short stretch of the winding Blue Ridge Parkway, with a flowering dogwood in the foreground. The road running along the mountainside and the flowering tree in front of it come together to capture the endearing scenery one meets while driving this road.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is not simply a road for getting around, but a “road for the scenery,” made so that people pass through slowly, enjoying nature. The flowering dogwood drawn in the foreground is a tree that brightly colors this region in spring, symbolizing the charm of this road, which offers new beauty each time the season changes.
This parkway was approved for creation on June 30, 1936, and began to be built. It has become a scenic road representing the United States, carefully designed so that people can enjoy the mountain scenery at their leisure.
This coin in the America the Beautiful series quietly shows that the very process of driving the road can be a joy, more than quickly reaching the destination.