. In Cloudland, Mayview Park, Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Elevation—feet Mayview Park 4,500 Blowing Rock . 4,090 Boone ... -3 -3-32 Valle Crucis . 2i726 Beech Mountain 5,522 Elevation—feet Sugar Mountain 5,289 Grandfather Mountain 5,964 Hanging Rock 5,237 Bald of Rich Mountain 5,300 Elk Knob Black Elevation— Mount Mitchell 6,711 Clingmans Dome ggii Balsam Cone 6645 Rocky Trail \ [ g.^gS Mountain Range ■f=< Elevation—feet Potato Hill 6,487 Cat-tail Peak 6,609 Potato Knob 6,419 Dome Gap 6,352. After a summers rain, from the higfiest point on Wonderland Trail the clouds extend in snowy
. In Cloudland, Mayview Park, Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Elevation—feet Mayview Park 4,500 Blowing Rock . 4,090 Boone ... -3 -3-32 Valle Crucis . 2i726 Beech Mountain 5,522 Elevation—feet Sugar Mountain 5,289 Grandfather Mountain 5,964 Hanging Rock 5,237 Bald of Rich Mountain 5,300 Elk Knob Black Elevation— Mount Mitchell 6,711 Clingmans Dome ggii Balsam Cone 6645 Rocky Trail \ [ g.^gS Mountain Range ■f=< Elevation—feet Potato Hill 6,487 Cat-tail Peak 6,609 Potato Knob 6,419 Dome Gap 6,352. After a summers rain, from the higfiest point on Wonderland Trail the clouds extend in snowy masses. Legends of Blowing Rock LIMBING to the highest point of the famous Blowing Rock, one recalls the ancient Indianlegend of the Cherokees as told by the mountain people. Here the beautiful daughter of the chief of the tribe would come in the soft twilight to keeptryst with a handsome warrior who had not found favor in the eyes of her father. He wooed herlong and ardently, but through her fathers opposition she soon tired of him and at the same spotentertained other lovers who were high in the good graces of their chief. The infuriated discardedlover, meeting her at the old trysting place, threatened to cast himself from the cliff if she refusedto agree to an alliance. Begging her sweetheart for a reprieve, so that she might consult with herfather, she hastened to the tepee of the great chief who refused to allow his daughter to marry aman who had failed to win a high place in the tribe by
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