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Little Switzerland is an unincorporated community in McDowell and Mitchell counties of North Carolina, United States. It is located along North Carolina Highway 226A (NC 226A) off the Blue Ridge Parkway , directly north of Marion and south of Spruce Pine .
NC 226A was established in 1961 as a renumbering of NC 26A through Little Switzerland. [6] Prior to 1961, the road that connected Little Switzerland was authorized in 1913 to be a toll road, operated and maintained by the Carolina, Clinchfield, and Ohio Railroad. Called Etchoe (pronounced Et-cho) Pass Road, it went from Gillespie Gap to Little ...
A little Switzerland or Schweiz is a landscape, often of wooded hills. This Romantic aesthetic term is not a geographic category, but was widely used in the 19th century to connote dramatic natural scenic features that would be of interest to tourists.
The second NC 26 was quickly reestablished in late 1934, replacing NC 19 from US 221 in Woodlawn, north through Little Switzerland, Spruce Pine, Bakersville, Red Hill, and then finally west to US 19W/US 23 in Sioux. [13] In 1940, NC 26 was rerouted north from Red Hill to the Tennessee state line.
Little Switzerland opened on December 7, 1941, with its last day of operation under its original owners on March 10, 2007. The area was completely remodeled in the summer of 2012 and reopened with new owners in the fall of 2012 as a year-round restaurant and winter ski area. Skiing and snowboarding resumed in the winter of 2012–2013.
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Little Switzerland (landscape), an area of scenic beauty; Little Switzerland (Luxembourg), a region of Luxembourg; Little Switzerland (Lynton & Lynmouth), an area of Exmoor in Devon, England, UK; Little Switzerland (Shorewood Hills, Arkansas), US; Little Switzerland, North Carolina, US; Little Switzerland (Wisconsin), a ski area in Wisconsin, US
Map of the Three Leagues and surrounding lands. The deep Alpine valleys of the present-day Grisons were originally settled by the Raetians (Rhaeti). In Chur, archaeological evidence of settlement goes back as far as the Pfyn culture [18] (3900–3500 BC), [19] making the capital city of the Grisons one of the oldest settlements in Switzerland.