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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 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 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.
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.
Mount Mitchell State Park ― North Carolina's first state park, founded in 1915 ― is 30 miles northeast of Asheville in Yancey County off the Blue Ridge Parkway.
In 1991, US 221 was placed on new bypass west of Marion; the old alignment became US 221 Business. [16] The same year, US 221/NC 181 was placed on a new bypass west of Linville; the former alignment became a secondary road. [17] [18] In 1997, US 221/US 421 was placed on new construction between NC 194 to the South Fork New River, in Boone. [19]
[a] [6] The highest peak of the mountain range is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina at 6,684 feet (2,037 m), which is also the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The range is older than the other major mountain range in North America, the Rocky Mountains of the west.
US 19 overlaps almost the entire route, except south and east of Bryson City. This byway also connects to the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway (at Topton and Almond via US 129 and North Carolina Highway 28, or NC 28). [4] Mount Mitchell Scenic Drive is a 52-mile (84 km) byway from I-26, through Burnsville, to the summit of Mount Mitchell State Park ...