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Mount Mitchell Scenic Drive Mount Mitchell State Park. The route serves as a spur from the Blue Ridge Parkway to Mount Mitchell. The highway begins at mile marker 355 on the Blue Ridge Parkway (on the border of Yancey and Buncombe counties); once past the gates, drivers are greeted by the only NC 128 shield on the whole route, its only indication (other than on a map) that it is a state highway.
Mount Mitchell (Attakulla in Cherokee) [3] is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland North America east of the Mississippi River. It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County , North Carolina in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles (31 km) northeast of Asheville .
Mount Mitchell State Park is a 4,789-acre (1,938 ha) [1] North Carolina state park in Yancey County, North Carolina in the United States. Established in 1915 by the state legislature, it became the first state park of North Carolina. By doing so, it also established the North Carolina State Parks System within the same bill.
Mount Le Conte is the highest mountain entirely within Tennessee and the tallest mountain east of the Rocky Mountains, measured from base to summit. In peak bagging terminology in the United States , the Southern Sixers refers to the group of mountains in the southern states of North Carolina and Tennessee with elevations above sea level of at ...
NC 80 at Buck Creek Gap. NC 80 is a 37.9-mile-long (61.0 km) two-lane mountain highway between US 70, in Pleasant Gardens, and NC 226A, near Bakersville.The highway is popular with bike and motorcycle enthusiasts, because of its hairpin turns and also makes up part of the Mount Mitchell Scenic Drive between the Blue Ridge Parkway and Micaville.
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US 70 – Asheville: To Mount Mitchell State Park: 43.3: 69.7: US 221 Bus. south (North Main Street) Woodlawn: 49.6: 79.8: NC 226 north – Little Switzerland, Spruce Pine: North end of NC 226 overlap: Burke: Linville Falls: 63.7: 102.5: NC 183 east – Morganton: To Linville Gorge Wilderness: Avery: 64.3: 103.5: Blue Ridge Parkway: To Linville ...
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