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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! 🌲

View North - Parking Area

Looking back down toward the summit parking area. In the lower right is the old museum building, which now houses a web camera. You can see how most of the large fir trees have died in the foreground, but a new crop of vibrant young ones are taking over.