Mount Mitchell State Park and Surroundings
129 Trails
218 POIs
89 Peaks
8 Campsites
14 Picnic Sites
23 Viewpoints
Description
Mount Mitchell State Park is a 1,996-acre (8.08 km2) North Carolina state park in Yancey County, North Carolina in the United States. Established in 1915 by the state legislature, it became the first state park of North Carolina. By doing so, it also established the North Carolina State Parks System within the same bill. Located at the end of NC 128 off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Burnsville, North Carolina, it includes the peak of Mount Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. From the parking lot, a steep paved path leads visitors to the summit and a raised observation platform with 360 degree views. The grave of Elisha Mitchell, the professor who first noted the mountain's height, is located at the base of the observation platform. The old observation tower was torn down in early October 2006. The trail leading to the summit has been paved, and a new observation platform was constructed and opened to the public in January 2009.
Trails in the Hikepack map
- Access Road
- Bald Knob Ridge Trail
- Big Butt Trail
- Big Ivy Road
- Big Tom Gap Trail
- Black Mountain Crest Trail
- Blackberry Lane
- Briar Bottom
- Buncombe Horse Range
- Buncombe Horse Range Trail
- Buncombe Horse Trail
- Camp Alice Trail
- Colbert Ridge Trail
- Commissary
- Coyote Ridge
- Crabtree Falls Trail
- Craggy Gardens Trail
- Craggy Pinnacle Trail
- Curtis Creek Road
- Deep Gap Road
- Douglas Falls Trail
- Elk Pen Trail
- Green Knob Trail
- Hawksbill Creek Road
- Heartbreak Ridge
- Hermans Trail
- Hoover Meadows Road
- Laurel Gap Trail
- Little Andy Creek Trail
- Locust Creek Road
- Locust Knob
- Lower Staire
- Mount Mitchell Trail
- Mountain to Sea Trail
- Mountains to Sea
- Mountains-to-Sea Trail
- Mt. Mitchell Summit Trail
- Neals Creek Road
- Newberry Creek Trail
- Old Mitchell Toll Road
- Old Mitchell Trail
- Rattlesnake Lodge Trail
- River Loop
- Roaring Fork Creek Falls Trail
- Roaring Fork Extension Road
- Rock Pond Road
- Seven Mile Ridge Road
- Shope Creek Road
- Snook's Nose
- Snowball Trail
- South Toe River Road
- Stoney Fork Road
- Sugarhouse Road
- Trail
- Trail 191
- Upper Corner Rock Creek Trail
- Walker Knob Overlook
- Woody Ridge Trail
Attractions in the Hikepack map
- 168
- 169
- Alexander Knob
- BPW
- Bald Knob
- Balsam Cone
- Bear Wallow Knob
- Bearpen Knob
- Bearwallow Knob
- Big Butt
- Big Fork Knob
- Big Laurel Mountain
- Big Pine Mountain
- Big Tom
- Bigtom
- Black Mountain Campground
- Black Mountains Overlook
- Blackberry Inn
- Blackstock Knob
- Blue Ridge Parkway 1tent
- Blue Ridge Parkway 1tent
- Bluerock Knob
- Bowlens Creek
- Bowlens Pyramid
- Brushy Mountain
- Bull Mountain
- Bullhead Mountain
- Burnt Mountain
- Busick
- Carolina Hemlocks Recreation Area
- Cattail Creek Community
- Cattail Peak
- Cedar Cliff Knob
- Celo Knob
- Cherry Mountain
- Chestnut Knob
- Clingmans Peak
- Commissary Hill
- Courthouse Knob
- Coxcomb Mountain
- Crabtree Falls
- Crabtree Falls Campground
- Crabtree Falls Trail
- Crabtree Falls Trailhead Parking
- Crabtree Falls Visitor Center
- Craggy Dome
- Craggy Dome Overlook
- Craggy Knob
- Craggy Pinnacle
- Crisawn Knob
- Deep Gap
- Deer Mountain
- Dillingham
- Douglas Falls
- Douglas Falls Trailhead Parking Area
- Eskota
- Flat Spring Knob
- Fork Mountain
- Gibbs Mountain
- Glass Rock Knob
- Glassmine Falls
- Glassmine Falls Overlook
- Grassy Knob
- Green Knob
- Green Knob Overlook
- Hallback
- Hamrick
- Hawkbill Rock
- High Knob
- High Swan
- Horse Rock
- Ingraham Mountain
- Ivy Knob
- Jess Knob
- Lane Pinnacle
- Lane Pinnacle Overlook
- Licklog Ridge Overlook
- Little Butt
- Little Celo Mountain
- Little Craggy Knob
- Little Mountain
- Little Snowball Mountain
- Locust Knob
- Lovelace Knob
- Low Gap
- Lower Overlook
- Maple Camp Bald
- Moody Mountain
- Mount Craig
- Mount Gibbes
- Mount Mitchell
- Mount Mitchell Campground
- Mt Mitchell Museum
- Mt Mitchell Observation
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds
- Mt Mitchell Restaurant
- Mt. Mitchell Park Office
- Mtcraig
- Murchison
- Ogle Rock
- Panther Knob
- Patton Knob
- Paynes Knob
- Pensacola
- Percys Peak
- Picnic
- Pigpen Knob
- Pinnacle
- Pinnacle Gap Visitor's Center
- Pinnacle Mountain
- Point Misery
- Potato Hill
- Potato Knob
- Rattlesnake Lodge
- Rich Knob
- Richland Knob
- Richland Mountain
- Roaring Fork Falls
- Rock Knob
- Rocky Knob
- Scenic Overlook
- Sheepwallow Knob
- Shope Creek Trailhead Parking
- Singecat Ridge Overlook
- Snake Knob
- Snowball Mountain
- Spruce Pinnacle
- Stones Knob
- Summit Overlook
- Tharp Mountain
- Three Knob Overlook
- Three Knobs
- Upper Crabtree Falls
- View Mount Mitchell Overlook
- Walker Knob
- Walker Knob Overlook
- Weedy Knob
- Winter Star Mountain
- Wolfden Knob
Copyright
The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Two Hearted River https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Mitchell_sign.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
