The Second Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Roanoke, Virginia, 1987. The conference featured keynote addresses by Harrold Eidsvik on parkways in Canada's National Park System and by John B. Slater on the American Society of Landscape Architects' view of parkways. Also highlighting the conference were Gary Everhardt's presentation "Blue Ridge Parkway: Sensitivity, Vision, and Design" and H. Bern Ewert's discussion of the 5,000 acre river greenway and parkway in Roanoke, Virginia called EXPLORE.