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2. Biltmore Estate - Wikipedia

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   Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina.Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), the main residence, is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft (12,568 m 2 ...

3. Brushy Mountains (North Carolina) - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 36°02′45″N 81°09′25″W. Autumn in the Brushy Mountains. The Brushy Mountains are a mountain range located in northwestern North Carolina. They are an isolated "spur" of the much larger Blue Ridge Mountains, separated from them by the Yadkin River valley. [1] A deeply eroded range, they move from the southwest to the ...

4. Geography of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   North Carolina covers 53,819 square miles (139,391 km 2) and is 503 miles (810 km) wide by 150 miles (241 km) long. The physical characteristics of the state vary from the summits of the Smoky Mountains, an altitude of near seven thousand feet (2,130 m) in the west, sloping eastward to sea level along the coast and beaches of the Atlantic Ocean.

5. Moses H. Cone Memorial Park - Wikipedia

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   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 public. It contains 3,500 acres (14 km 2), a ...

6. Chimney Rock State Park - Wikipedia

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   In May 2005, the North Carolina General Assembly authorized the creation of the "Hickory Nut Gorge State Park." In August 2005 the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy and The Nature Conservancy purchased a 1,568-acre (6.35 km 2) tract of land south of Lake Lure known as "World's Edge" for $16 million with the intention of transferring the land as the first to be added to the new state park.

7. Pilot Mountain State Park - Wikipedia

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   Website. Pilot Mountain State Park. Pilot Mountain State Park is a North Carolina state park in Surry and Yadkin Counties, North Carolina in the United States. Located near Pinnacle, North Carolina on highway US 52, it covers 3,872 acres (15.67 km 2) [1] and includes the distinctive 2,241 foot (683 m) peak of Pilot Mountain.

8. Uwharrie Mountains - Wikipedia

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   The Uwharrie Mountains (/ juːˈhwɑːri /) [1] are a mountain range in North Carolina spanning the counties of Randolph, Montgomery, Stanly, and Davidson. The range's foothills stretch into Cabarrus, Anson, Union, and Richmond counties. The Uwharries were once a coastal mountain range; [citation needed] isostasy has slowly raised the eastern ...

9. Mount Jefferson (North Carolina) - Wikipedia

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   Easiest route. Drive, hike. Mount Jefferson is a mountain located in Ashe County, North Carolina. The mountain is part of the Mount Jefferson State Natural Area. The mountain has an elevation of 4,665 feet (1,422 m) above sea level, and it sharply rises more than 1,600 feet above the towns of Jefferson, North Carolina and West Jefferson.