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The Adirondacks are great but I’m also a fan of the wilderness areas is Pisgah. Linville Gorge is even old growth, I believe.
by bradleyjg 5y ago
The Adirondacks are great but I’m also a fan of the wilderness areas is Pisgah. Linville Gorge is even old growth, I believe.
- rntn 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linville_Gorge_Wilderness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linville_Gorge_Wilderness "The forbidding nature of the terrain made resource extraction unprofitable, which is the primary reason why the gorge is one of the few remaining examples of old growth forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains range. No industrial logging ever took place within the gorge, and its virgin forests span 10,000 acres (40 km2).[5]" https://news.yahoo.com/final-nantahala-pisgah-forest-plan-100020064.html https://news.yahoo.com/final-nantahala-pisgah-forest-plan-10... "One addition in the plan is the special designation of an 11,500-acre Big Ivy/Craggy Mountains Forest Scenic Area in Buncombe County, which Will Harlan, organizer with Friends of Big Ivy and I Heart Pisgah, said leaves just one step before it becomes the state's first national scenic area: a congressional designation. It is one of five Forest Scenic Areas included in the plan, alongside Looking Glass Rock, John Rock in the Pisgah and Whitewater Falls and Glen Falls in the Nantahala." I spend quite a bit of time in the Nantahala and Pisgah forests along the southern escarpment of the Blue Ridge. Pisgah is, in my opinion, far and away the best XC mountain biking in the southeast. Some pretty good fly fishing for brookies in the streams above 3000 feet in both forests..