ASHEVILLE - The Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center in Asheville will reopen for visitors on Oct. 4, as well as two other park facilities that shuttered because of the federal government shutdown.

The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation is funding the operation of the Parkway Visitor Center in Asheville, the Museum of North Carolina Minerals in Spruce Pine and Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax, Virginia, the nonprofit announced Oct. 3. The funds will allow these facilities to stay open for seven days, starting Oct. 4.

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