Access along the Blue Ridge Parkway to Craggy Gardens and near Mount Michell State Park is expected to reopen fall 2025, ...

Mount Mitchell State Park is ranked #7 out of 20 things to do in Asheville, NC. ... Getty Images. Key Info. 2388 NC-128. Website. Price & Hours. Free. From 7 a.m. daily; closing hours vary by season.

Juanita Wilson, the photographer of this image of bear hunters on Mount Mitchell, was someone who, if you didn’t know her, you didn’t know Asheville, her 1976 obituary stated.

“In 1953, the son of the Pioneer abolitionist Capt. William Mitchell, he gave the state the 30 acre hilltop with the ...

The Assault on Mt. Mitchell is a 102.7 mile ride, not race, from Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium in downtown Spartanburg, along the Blue Ridge Parkway, to the summit at Mt. Mitchell State Park in ...

The state park that resides on the highest mountain east of the Mississippi River will receive over 400 acres, protecting high elevation forests.

The narrow gauge railroad from Black Mountain to Mount Mitchell, highest peak in the east, originated as a lumber company line in 1911. Starting in 1913, a train also took tourists on excursions.