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Maggie Valley is a town in Haywood County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,687 at the 2020 census. [4] A popular tourist destination, it is home to Cataloochee Ski Area and the former Ghost Town in the Sky amusement park. Maggie Valley is part of the Asheville metropolitan area.
Ghost Town was the brainchild of R.B. Coburn, a Covington, VA native who moved to Maggie Valley, North Carolina. Originally, it was planned that the park would be placed between the towns of Waynesville, North Carolina and Clyde, North Carolina , but future owner Alaska Presley suggested the mountain top locale.
Cataloochee Ski Area is a ski area in the eastern United States in southwestern North Carolina, near Maggie Valley. With eighteen ski slopes and trails, approximately 44% are rated beginner, 39% intermediate, and 17% advanced. Its top elevation is 5,400 feet (1,646 m) above sea level, yielding a vertical drop of 740 feet (226 m).
Maggie Valley is one of five towns in Haywood County, a region which relies on tourism as the main source of income for locals, providing a gateway into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and ...
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More than 100 prominent waterfalls are located within the park. The tallest is Ramsey Cascades, located at the base of Mt. Guyot. This waterfall drops 100 feet (30 m) over rock outcroppings into a small pool below. Rainbow Falls is the tallest single-drop waterfall, plunging 80 feet (24 m) along LeConte Creek.
Tokopah Falls. Black Wolf Falls – 50 ft (15 m) Broder Falls (Coyote Creek Falls) – 63 ft (19 m) + Brush Creek Falls; Cascade Falls (Yucca Creek Falls) – 50 ft (15 m) + Chagoopa Falls – 1,200 ft (370 m) Crystal Creek Falls; Franklin Falls; Freeman Creek Falls – 150 ft (46 m) Marble Falls (Marble Fork Falls) – 600 ft (180 m)