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Pisgah National Forest

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Address: 1001 Pisgah Hwy
Pisgah Forest, NC 28768
Phone: 828-877-3265;
Fax: 828-884-7527;
Web: www.cs.unca.edu/nfsnc
Size: 510,119 acres.
Location: Western North Carolina. Accessible by US 19, 23, 64, 276, and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Nearby cities/towns include Brevard, Canton, and Waynesville.
Facilities: Visitor center, campgrounds, picnic sites, boat ramp, trails, ORV area, scenic drives.
Activities: Camping, fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, ORV riding, mountain biking, horseback riding, interpretive programs, rock climbing, berry picking.
Special Features: The Cradle of Forestry in America, an outdoor museum on former grounds of George Washington Vanderbilt's estate, which depicts the history of forest conservation and honors leaders in its development; Looking Glass Falls, an unbroken rush of whitewater 30 feet wide and 60 feet high; Appalachian National Scenic Trail (see entry in national trails section); Roan Mountain Gardens, with spring displays of purple rhododendron; Shining Rock Wilderness, named for a rock outcrop filled with quartz deposits.

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Park your RV nearby at the Bear Den in Mount Pisgah National Forest.

Gem Hunting RV Camping Ideas by Rob Pirozzi / Travel, recreation and leisure community

The harvest will be scattered throughout an 11,225-acre section of Pisgah National Forest, with no clear-cutting allowed.

Foes fear you can't see the forest for the trees by Business North Carolina

And there is a observatory right in the center of the upper house where one has a full view of the many gardens and forestry of the estate and beyond The original estate took in 125,000 acres of beautiful forestland, but after Vanderbilt died in 1914, his widow wisely sold off most of the land to the US Government, and the land became Pisgah National Forest.

The Biltmore Estate the Ultimate in Land Development by Santo Del Monico / Real estate industry community