Thanks to the lucrative appeal of a special blue-on-yellow license plate, a nonprofit foundation has more than enough money this year to build a handicapped-accessible trail at Abbott Lake, improve more trails at Price Lake and install bathrooms at Graveyard Fields – all part of the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina.

The parkway plate with its “Share the Journey” slogan is the most popular item on a list of special license tags that the General Assembly decided last year to eliminate by 2015.