Virginia State Route 48

Main articles: Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway

State Route 48 marker State Route 48
Route information
Maintained by NPS and VDOT
Length	321.2 mi (516.9 km)
Existed	July 1935–present
Location
Country	United States
State	Virginia
Highway system
Virginia Routes Interstate US Primary Secondary Byways History HOT lanes
← US 48 → SR 49

State Route 48 (SR 48) is the unsigned designation for the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive from the North Carolina state line north to U.S. Route 340 (US 340) near Front Royal. Most of the road is maintained by the National Park Service, though the portion which is concurrent with SR 43 is maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT).

Other Route 48s

File:2016-10-24 10 38 27 View south at the south end of Shenandoah National Park's Skyline Drive and the north end of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Rockfish Gap on the border of Augusta County, Virginia and Nelson County, Virginia.jpg

The junction of the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive (SR 48) at Rockfish Gap

The following highways in Virginia have also been known as State Route 48:

• alt State Route 48, 1928 to the mid-1930s, now part of SR 40.
• alt U.S. Route 48, early 2000s to the present, concurrent with the westernmost 14 miles (23 km) of SR 55.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Warren	​	0.0	0.0	File:US 340.svgFile:To plate blue.svg File:I-66.svg US 340 to I-66 – Skyline Caverns, Luray, Front Royal	Northern terminus
Page	Thornton Gap	31.5	50.7	File:US 211.svg US 211 – Washington, DC, Luray	Thornton Gap Entrance Station, interchange
Rockingham	Swift Run Gap	65.5	105.4	File:US 33.svg US 33 – Richmond, Harrisonburg	Swift Run Gap Entrance Station, interchange
Augusta	Rockfish Gap	105.5	169.8	File:US 250.svgFile:To plate blue.svg File:I-64.svg US 250 to I-64 – Charlottesville, Waynesboro	South end of Skyline Drive and north end of Blue Ridge Parkway; One-quadrant interchange; I-64 exit 99; mileposts reset to zero here
	Reids Gap	13.7	22.0	File:Circle sign 664.svg SR 664 (Beech Grove Road / Reeds Gap Road) – Waynesboro
Nelson	​	16.0	25.7	File:Circle sign 814.svgFile:To plate.svg File:Virginia 56.svg SR 814 (Campbells Mountain Road) to SR 56	Unpaved road
	​	16.1	25.9	File:Circle sign 814.svg SR 814 (Love Road) – Sherando Lake
	Tye River Gap	27.1	43.6	File:Virginia 56.svg SR 56 – Montebello, Steele's Tavern	One-quadrant interchange
Rockbridge	Humphreys Gap	45.5	73.2	File:US 60.svg US 60 – Buena Vista, Amherst	One-quadrant interchange
Amherst	Otter Creek	61.3	98.7	File:Virginia 130.svg SR 130 – Natural Bridge, Lynchburg	One-quadrant interchange
Bedford	​	63.9	102.8	File:US 501.svg US 501 – Big Island, Glasgow	One-quadrant interchange
	Peaks of Otter	85.9	138.2	File:South plate.svg File:Virginia 43.svg SR 43 south – Bedford	North end of SR 43 overlap; north end of VDOT maintenance of SR 43 (southern segment)
Botetourt	Powell Gap	89.0	143.2	File:North plate.svg File:Circle sign 618.svg SR 618 north
	Bearwallow Gap	90.9	146.3	File:North plate.svg File:Virginia 43.svg SR 43 north – Buchanan	Two-quadrant interchange; south end of SR 43 overlap; south end of VDOT maintenance of SR 43 (northern segment)
	​	105.9	170.4	File:US 460.svg US 460 (US 221) – Bedford, Roanoke	Two-quadrant interchange
Roanoke	​	112.3	180.7	File:Virginia 24.svg SR 24 – Stewartsville, Vinton, Roanoke, Booker T. Washington National Monument	Two-quadrant interchange
	​	115.2	185.4	Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, Virginia's Explore Park (Roanoke River Parkway)
	​	120.5	193.9	Mill Mountain Park & Zoo, Historic Roanoke Star, Downtown Roanoke (Mill Mountain Parkway)
	​	121.4	195.4	File:US 220.svg US 220 – Rocky Mount, Roanoke	Two-quadrant interchange
	Adney Gap	136.0	218.9	File:US 221.svg US 221	Connector road
Floyd	​	159.3	256.4	File:Circle sign 860.svg SR 860 (Shooting Creek Road)	Former SR 109
	Tuggle Gap	165.1	265.7	File:Virginia 8.svg SR 8 – Floyd, Stuart	One-quadrant interchange
	​	174.0	280.0	File:Circle sign 799.svg SR 799 (Conner Grove Road)	former SR 102 north
	​	174.1	280.2	File:Circle sign 758.svg SR 758 (Woodberry Road)	former SR 102 south
	​	174.2	280.3	File:Circle sign 758.svg SR 758 (Buffalo Mountain Road)
Patrick	Meadows of Dan	177.7	286.0	File:US 58.svg US 58 (via US 58 Bus.) – Stuart, Hillsville	Parkway and US 58 grade-separated; two-quadrant interchange with US 58 Bus.
Patrick–Carroll county line	Willis Gap	192.1	309.2	File:Circle sign 771.svg SR 771 (Willis Gap Road)
Carroll	​	199.0	320.3	File:Circle sign 608.svg SR 608 (Lightning Ridge Road)
	​	199.2	320.6	File:Circle sign 608.svg SR 608 (Ranger Road)
	Fancy Gap	199.4	320.9	File:US 52.svgFile:To plate blue.svg File:I-77.svg US 52 to I-77 – Mt. Airy, Hillsville	Two-quadrant interchange
Grayson	Low Gap	215.7	347.1	File:Virginia 89.svg SR 89 – Mt. Airy, Galax	One-quadrant interchange
	​			File:South plate.svg File:Blue Ridge Parkway shield.png Blue Ridge Parkway south	North Carolina state line; southern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

External links

• File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Virginia State Route 48 at Wikimedia Commons