Blue Ridge Parkway campground to be open, for now

The National Park Service wants to convert a little-used campground along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia to a daytime recreation area. 

But the park service doesn't have funding to implement the conversion. That means the Roanoke Mountain Campground will remain as a campground until Congress appropriates funding to implement the change. 

The park service estimates the conversion would cost nearly $3 million. 

The campground's conversion is part of the park service's 25-year management plan for the parkway.  


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Roanoke Mountain is the least-used of the parkway's nine campgrounds.