This Floating Road Along North Carolina’s Grandfather Mountain Required Engineers to Reinvent How Roads Are Built

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Cruising Down Linn Cove Viaduct

The Blue Ridge Parkway pulled off something special with the Linn Cove Viaduct: they built a curving bridge that looks like it’s floating around Grandfather Mountain.

This 1,243-foot stretch of road took some serious engineering to make a highway this gentle on the landscape, but that was exactly the point…

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