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Historic 75-mile Blue Ridge Parkway road rehabilitation project finishes

The National Park Service has completed a more than $100 million rehabilitation project covering 75 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Western North Carolina. The work was funded by the Great American Outdoors Act.

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♥ Why this matters

Seventy-five miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway, resurfaced and rebuilt. Over a hundred million dollars, federal funding from the Great American Outdoors Act, and the roads that shape how most of us experience these mountains got the infrastructure they should have had years ago. The project wrapped in October. A straight public good, no ceremony needed.

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