A lot of people will drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway in coming months, and for the first time in six years, they can drive all 469 miles of it. Various maintenance, repair or construction projects forced the closure of some parkway stretches every year since 2006. WFIR’s Evan Jones has the story.

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