[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR7.34]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 7_SPECIAL REGULATIONS, AREAS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM--Table 
of Contents
 
Sec.  7.34  Blue Ridge Parkway.

    (a) Snowmobiles. After consideration of any special situations, i.e. 
prescheduled or planned park activities such as conducted hikes or 
winter bird and wildlife counts, and depending on local weather 
conditions, the Superintendent may allow the use of snowmobiles on the 
paved motor road and overlooks used by motor vehicle traffic during 
other seasons between U.S. 220, Milepost 121.4 and Adney Gap, Milepost 
136.0. The public will be notified of openings through the posting of 
signs.
    (b) Fishing. (1) Fishing is prohibited from one-half hour after 
sunset until one-half hour before sunrise.
    (2) Fishing from the dam at Price Lake or from the footbridge in 
Price Lake picnic area in Watauga County, N.C., and from the James River 
Parkway Bridge in Bedford and Amherst Counties, Va., is prohibited.
    (3) The following waters are subject to the restrictions indicated:
    (i) North Carolina. Basin Creek and its tributaries in Doughton 
Park; Trout Lake in Moses H. Cone Memorial Park; Ash Bear Pen Pond, 
Boone Fork River, Cold Prong Branch, Laurel Creek, Sims Creek, Sims Pond 
in Julian Price Memorial Park, and Camp Creek.
    (A) On all of the above-designated waters in North Carolina the use 
of bait other than artificial lures having a single hook is prohibited, 
except that on Basin Creek and its tributaries and Boone Fork River from 
Price Lake Dam downstream to the Parkway boundary the use of bait other 
than single hook artificial flies is prohibited.
    (B) On all of the above-designated waters in North Carolina the 
daily creel and size limits shall be posted around the lake shorelines 
and along the stream banks.
    (ii) Virginia. Peaks of Otter Lake in Bedford County, Va.
    (A) On the above-designated water in Virginia the use of bait other 
than artificial lures having one single hook is prohibited.
    (B) On the above-designated water in Virginia the daily creel and 
size limits shall be as posted on the lake shoreline.
    (4) Prohibited bait in waters in paragraphs (b)(3) (i) and (ii) of 
this section: Possession of or use as bait of insects, worms, and other 
similar organic bait or parts thereof adjacent to, on, or in streams or 
lakes while in possession of fishing tackle, is prohibited.

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    (c) Powerless flight. The use of devices designed to carry persons 
through the air in powerless flight is allowed at times and locations 
designated by the superintendent, pursuant to the terms and conditions 
of a permit.
    (d) Boating. (1) The use of any vessel, as defined in Sec.  3.1 of 
this chapter on the waters of the Blue Ridge Parkway is prohibited 
except on the waters of Price Lake.
    (2) Vessels using Price Lake shall be restricted to vessels 
propelled solely by oars or paddles.
    (3) Vessels using Price Lake may be launched only at established or 
designated ramps and shall be removed from the water for the night. 
Campers shall remove their vessels from the water to their campsites at 
night.

[24 FR 11032, Dec. 30, 1959, as amended at 34 FR 11969, July 16, 1969; 
36 FR 20945, Nov. 2, 1971; 37 FR 20247, Sept. 28, 1972; 42 FR 61042, 
Dec. 1, 1977; 46 FR 39818, Aug. 5, 1981; 48 FR 30295, June 30, 1983; 49 
FR 18450, Apr. 30, 1984; 52 FR 10686, Apr. 2, 1987; 52 FR 20388, June 1, 
1987]