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Pisgah Forest is an unincorporated community in Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States. [1] It sits at an elevation of 2100 feet (640 m) along U.S. Route 64 , northeast of Brevard . It is approximately a 30-minute drive from the Asheville Regional Airport .
The Pisgah National Forest is completely contained within the state of North Carolina. The forest is managed together with the other three North Carolina National Forests (Croatan, Nantahala, and Uwharrie) from common headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina. There are local ranger district offices located in Pisgah Forest, Mars Hill, and Nebo.
Western North Carolina (often abbreviated as WNC) is the region of North Carolina which includes the Appalachian Mountains; it is often known geographically as the state's Mountain Region. It contains the highest mountains in the Eastern United States, with 125 peaks rising to over 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) in elevation.
The Pisgah and Nantahala national forests cover more than a million acres of mountainous terrain in Western North Carolina. The two are the largest of the state’s four national forests and ...
The U.S. Forest Service continues to pause ginseng harvesting permits in Pisgah and Nantahala to allow the plants to grow to sustainable populations.
The U.S. Forest Service and North Carolina Department of Agriculture will take on the project, treating private and National Forest System lands in N.C., according to a news release from National ...
Brevard (/ b r ə ˈ v ɑːr d / brə-VARD) is a city and the county seat of Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States, with a population of 7,609 as of the 2010 census. [5] Brevard is located at the entrance to Pisgah National Forest and has become a noted tourism, retirement and cultural center in western North Carolina. A moderate ...
The Asheville metropolitan area is a metropolitan area centered on the principal city of Asheville, North Carolina. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget defines the Asheville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area , a metropolitan statistical area used by the United States Census Bureau and other entities, as comprising the four counties of ...