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This site will be shutting down as of August 31, 2025. Take notes, make backups, train your models - whatever you need to do before then.

🌄 Thank you for 29 years of guiding your outdoor adventures in Western NC! 🌲

Sign for Big Tom

BIG TOM Altitude 6580 feet. Named for Thomas David ("Big Tom") Wilson (1825-1909). Famous guide and bear hunter of the Black Mountains who found the body of Dr. Elisha Mitchell July 7, 1857.