Blue Ridge Parkway is an interesting driving route
I'll be there in a couple of months! We're planning on doing a hike through the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee.
I understand it is  469 miles through Virginia and North Carolina 
The hike we're doing will be part of the Appalachian Trail. It will be very scenic.
Some think of it as just a motor road or a pleasant drive. But the Parkway is also a place of varied and significant natural resources., I bet the hiking around there is spectacular
Well what about the Appalachain trail? It isn't for driving at all. You could walk through fourteen U.S. states on that trail.