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The Wilson Creek Wilderness area was once used by the Cherokee Native Americans as a summer hunting ground. [4] The area was settled in 1750, and logging began in the forest. Mortimer, once the largest community in the Wilson Creek area, was the site of the Ritter Lumber Company sawmill. This sawmill was destroyed by a storm that produced over ...
North Carolina Bicycle Route 6, the Piedmont Spur, is a 200 miles (320 km) southern alternate route of the Mountain to the Sea through the North Carolina Piedmont. [2] The route begins at the intersection of NC 181 (Beatrice Cobb Highway) and Brown Mountain Beach Road.
Brown Mountain is an unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States.Located north of the Sauratown Mountain range with a peak of 1580 feet above sea level, the Brown Mountain community lays claim to one of only two privately owned "peaks" in Stokes County; all others are within the NC State Park system.
The Fonta Flora State Trail is a unit of the North Carolina state park system in Buncombe, McDowell, and Burke Counties, North Carolina, in the United States, and it consists of 90 acres (36 ha) [1] of conservation land and 19 miles (31 km) [1] designated multi-use trail.
Brown Mountain [1] is a low-lying ridge, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, in the Pisgah National Forest near Morganton, in western North Carolina, [2] on the border of Burke and Caldwell Counties. [3] [4] Since at least the early 20th century, mysterious illuminations known as the Brown Mountain lights have been seen there. [5]
The first 12 miles (19 km) of the road appears as a regular back road highway, going by homes and shrubbery farms. At Brown Mountain Beach Road, the sharp bend of the highway starts the climb up through the Pisgah National Forest to Jonas Ridge. This 13-mile (21 km) section of the highway features multiple curves (some tight with speed warnings ...
Adams Mountain (variant name: Adams Knob [1]) is a mountain near the unincorporated community of Collettsville, North Carolina. It is situated wholly within Pisgah National Forest . It reaches 2,490 feet (759 m) and is nearby Brown Mountain Ridge , which is known for its mysterious Brown Mountain Lights .
Due to the nature of the terrain, hiking in the Linville Gorge can be a strenuous and challenging activity. Maps of the trail system are available through United States Forest Service offices and information facilities in the area, but it's important to remember that due to the Wilderness area designation, trails in the gorge are not the improved, well-marked, cleared and graded paths that ...