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COUNTRY ROADS
Bluffs Coffee Shop Roars Back to Life
Take a trip down memory lane on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
ostalgia alert: Longtime visitors to the Blue Ridge
Parkway are once again able to stop for a meal
again at what was once The Bluffs Coffee Shop.
Closed for the last decade after a long decline, the beloved
institution has reopened as The Bluffs Restaurant at North
Carolina's Doughton Park-milepost 241-following a $1
million restoration funded by a coalition of public and private
supporters.
The Bluffs Coffee Shop operated for 61 years serving
home-cooked goodness to generations of travelers.
Perched on the windswept heights near Air Bellows Gap,
The Bluffs opened in 1949 and closed in 2010. One staff
member, Ellen Woodruff Smith, was there the whole time;
she greeted generations of diners from opening day to
closing day.
Says Sharon Pinney, half of the partnership that manages
the restaurant and the kitchen, " We are prepared for
people to come here and tell us their memories of coming
here with their grandparents. There will be tears. "
Today The Bluffs looks just the same as it did more than
70 years ago, from the green-and-white checked floor to
the comfy gold-upholstered rotating bar stools to the soaring
roof beams. Mold remediation alone cost more than
a quarter million dollars. Only then could work begin on
N
The Bluffs Coffee
Shop is offering
breakfast, lunch and
dinner at Milepost
241 on the North
Carolina Blue Ridge
Parkway.
updating all mechanical systems, re-creating the cabinetry
and furnishings, and making the facility ADA-compliant.
It takes money to make new look old.
Hours at the new Bluffs are 8 a.m.-8 p.m., seven days a
week. The season lasts from late May to early November.
Breakfast and lunch feature hearty Appalachian fare, including
still-warm donuts...perfect when hiking nearby.
Dinner goes upscale with mountain trout and local vegetables,
beer and wine. Picnic boxes available.
Reservations for leaf season were already pouring in
during the summer, according to Pinney.
bluffsrestaurant.org; 336-372-7875
-NAN K. CHASE
As the mountains' vibrant foliage reaches its
peak, come aboard the Autumn Color Express to
savor the season's brilliant crimsons and blushing
ambers. Traveling through the New River Gorge
National Park and Preserve, pass by cascading
waterfalls and escape to historic towns, all the
while enveloping yourself in the warm glow of fall.
WVtourism.com/AutumnColorsExpress
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