Project Overview

The Foothills Parkway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of several federal scenic highways authorized by Congress in the early twentieth century. Currently, the parkway extends from Fontana, North Carolina to Wears Valley in Tennessee and from Cosby, Tennessee to the crest of Green Mountain.

Blalock has been instrumental in construction of the Foothills Parkway  and has supplied concrete for numerous phases of the project, including repaving, concrete repairs, bridge and retaining wall construction,  and wildfire remediation from Walland to Fontana and along the Gatlinburg Bypass. More recently, our team supplied over 20,000 cubic yards of high-performance concrete for the construction of six bridges along the Missing Link section of parkway above Wears Valley and Townsend, Tennessee. These bridges, which were a major hurdle to completing the link from Walland to Wears Valley, provide the most scenic views along this section of the parkway.

In November 2018, this section of the parkway, including the Missing Link, was opened to the public more than 34 years after construction began in Wears Valley.