UPDATE: We have a limit of 750 riders on the Blue Ridge Parkway. In order not to jeopardize our standing with the Park Service, only riders wearing number 750 or less will be allowed on the Parkway.

A couple of weeks ago, Watauga Red Cross Executive Director Sonny Sweet and I met with Blue Ridge Parkway Rangers about this year's BSG. Access to this fantasticly beautiful roadway is a make or break element to the ride. The Parkway officials, have always been very supportive and professional in all of our dealings with them. Their main concern is safety, period. In reviewing photos and video taken from last year's ride, we saw riders over the yellow center line, huge packs of riders 4-8 across refusing to even try to get over to the right, and we even saw a rider throw a bottle at the ranger's car after being asked for the second time to ride to the right of the center line. We agreed with the rangers that this behavior cannot be safe or acceptable. For this year's ride if the rangers can provide us with a problem riders number they will not be doing BSG again. We as organizers and you as riders MUST make safety our first priority also.