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Audubon North Carolina assists with the management of the property. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve: Coastal Plain Moore [2] 915 acres (3.70 km 2) [5] 1963 [2] Open The first North Carolina State Natural Area, it preserves strands of longleaf pine forests in Sandhills region. Yellow Mountain State Natural Area — Mountains Mitchell ...
Publisher: Hudson Library of Highlands, North Carolina (1994) ISBN 0-9640078-3-5 A written history of the town library. Heart of the Blue Ridge Highlands, North Carolina by Randolph P. Shaffner; Publisher: Faraway Publishing (2004) ISBN 0-9710130-3-9 A written history of the town of Highlands, NC from its foundation to the publication of this book.
It is located between mile markers 238.5 - 244.7 [1] on the border between Wilkes and Alleghany Counties in North Carolina. Doughton Park consists of highland meadows with numerous scenic overlooks, miles of hiking and bridle trails, areas for camping and cookouts, and it is one of the few areas on the Parkway that has a restaurant (called The ...
The AT leaves the state park for a National Park Service-owned corridor here, and the other trails provide access to Sugarloaf Hill, whose 760-foot (230 m) summit looks across the river at the village of Highland Falls and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Here, near Garrison, the southern parcels end. [4]
Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve is a North Carolina state park in Moore County, North Carolina in the United States. Located near Southern Pines, North Carolina, it covers 915 acres (3.70 km 2) [1] in the Sandhills region of the state. Weymouth Woods is the location of the oldest known longleaf pine tree on record, a tree that was ...
Park sign near Flat Top Manor. The Moses H. Cone Memorial Park is a country estate in honor of Moses H. Cone in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. It is on the Blue Ridge Parkway between mileposts 292 and 295 with access at milepost 294. [2] Most locals call it Cone Park. The park is run by the National Park Service and is open to the
Julian Price Memorial Park is a park of 4,200 acres (17 km 2) at the foot of Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, named in honor of Julian Price. It is at milepost 297 on the Blue Ridge Parkway and directly adjacent to the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park .
It is the smallest of the four National Forests in North Carolina, with a total area of 50,645 acres (204.95 km 2). About 79% of its acreage is in Montgomery County. The forest is managed together with the other three North Carolina National Forests (Croatan, Nantahala, and Pisgah) from common headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina.