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Here’s when the popular private attraction in western North Carolina is set to reopen after Hurricane Helen swept through the region as a tropical storm.
The nonprofit Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, will be welcoming the public to witness the spectacle of its synchronous fireflies.
Grandfather Mountain [1] is a mountain, a non-profit attraction, and a North Carolina state park near Linville, North Carolina. At 5,946 feet (1,812 m), it is the highest peak on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Ridge Mountains , one of the major chains of the Appalachian Mountains .
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The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games is a Highland games event that has been held annually since 1956 at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina.Celebrating the history and culture of Scots in North Carolina, it is among the first and largest modern Highland games established in the United States.
Two years after Hugh Morton died in 2006, his family sold approximately 2,650 acres of the mountain's protected wilderness to the state of North Carolina for $12 million, along with a conservation easement on approximately 700 acres that the Morton family gifted to the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation. The 2,650-acre tract purchased ...
A former Grandfather Mountain Highland Games employee was sentenced in Asheville federal court for an explosive device found in the games' office.
Linville is located in eastern Avery County in the Blue Ridge Mountains.The community is surrounded on all sides by mountains, these are: Grandmother Mountain (East), Flat Rock (Southeast), Pixie Mountain (West), Moore Mountain (Northwest), Brier Knob (North) and Grandfather Mountain (Northeast).