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Wellsville Mountain Wilderness at 22,986 acres (93.02 km 2) Kamas, Evanston, and Mountain View Districts. High Uintas Wilderness at 456,705 acres (1,848.22 km 2) (shared with Ashley National Forest) Salt Lake District. Mount Olympus Wilderness at 15,856 acres (64.17 km 2) Twin Peaks Wilderness at 11,796 acres (47.74 km 2) Lone Peak Wilderness ...
10,473 acres (42.38 km 2) [1] [2] Open year-round Gill State Forest: Mountains Avery: 474 acres (1.92 km 2) [3] Not open to the general public Headwaters State Forest: Mountains Transylvania: 6,730 acres (27.2 km 2) [4] Open year-round Holmes Educational State Forest: Mountains Henderson: 235 acres (0.95 km 2) [1] Open year-roud Jordan Lake ...
The rivers of central North Carolina rise on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge. The two largest of these are the Catawba River and the Yadkin River, and they drain much of the Piedmont region of the state. The major rivers of Eastern North Carolina, from north to south, are: the Chowan, the Roanoke, the Tar, the Neuse and the Cape Fear.
Mountain View (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 36°18′32″N 80°18′14″W / 36.30889°N 80.30389°W / 36.30889; -80
[2] [3] Early white settlers named the river Linville in honor of John and William Linville, explorers who were scalped by the Shawnee [4] in the gorge in 1766. [3] The steepness of the sides, the depth of the gorge, and the peaks of the Jonas Ridge to the east and Linville Mountain to the west made settlement impractical in the 1800s and 1900s.
US 19 enters North Carolina at the Georgia state line overlapped with US 129 and continues toward Cherokee as Lee Highway. Four miles (6.4 km) into North Carolina, it joins with US 64/US 74 in Ranger. From Ranger to Andrews, the highway is a four-lane expressway that bypasses all the towns
U.S. Route 321, a four-lane expressway, crosses the eastern corner of the Mountain View CDP, where its Exit 42 provides access to NC 127. Exit 42 is 1 mile (1.6 km) south of US 321's intersection with Interstate 40 in Hickory. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Mountain View CDP has a total area of 4.6 square miles (12.0 km 2 ...
The area was first identified in 1966. [1] It was then designated by Congress in 1975 with the Eastern Wilderness Act. [1] Additional lands were added to Ellicott Rock Wilderness in 1984 [2] [3] with the passing of the North Carolina Wilderness Act [citation needed] and the Georgia Wilderness Act [citation needed], today designated wilderness totals 8,274 acres (33.48 km 2).