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Originally Posted by Doug Brown
if you are going to travel to Blue Ridge Parkway make sure your rig is no taller than 12’4”. My wife and I did this a couple years ago in our fifth wheel and down or went under the tunnel. It would’ve ended our trip and there could be lower tunnels ahead. We left outta smoking Mountain national Park and took the Blue Ridge from there. That’s where we ran end of the 12 foot four tunnel. Garmins 785 RV GPS had no info for this road.
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Based on the BRP App, there is only one tunnel in the north end of the parkway, and it's the Bluff Mountain Tunnel at 53.1 mile post. It's 18'6" max height and 13'1" minimum height. No more tunnels until 333.4 mile post. The Lickstone Ridge tunnel @ 458.8 mile post is 17'7" maximum and 11'8" minimum. The Bunches Bald tunnel 459.3 mile post is 18' maximum and 12'3" minimum height. The Big Witch tunnel @ 461.2 mile post is 18' maximum and 11'7" minimum height. We plan on leaving the parkway @ NC Route 191 to Asheville & Hendersonville (MP 393.6) before we encounter the low tunnels.
We would like to go as far as the Richland Balsam Overlook (Milepost 431.4). Richland Balsam surpasses 6,000 feet and is, in fact, the highest point on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We would then exit @ US Hwy 74/23 to Waynesville & Sylva (MP 443.1) This would all be weather dependent.