. In Cloudland, Mayview Park, Blowing Rock, North Carolina. en erected on this road are scattered along the cliffs and are in the most secluded section of May-view Park and yet are conveniently within reach of the village of Blowing Rock. Wonderland Trail begins at the main street of Blowing Rock at the entrance to Mayview Park and continuing pastLake Mayview, an artificial lake of three acres, it climbs in circuitous broad turns and long stretches, along the crest of thepeak to Mayview Rock. All trails within the property lead to this point where one obtains the marvelous views of the BlueRid
. In Cloudland, Mayview Park, Blowing Rock, North Carolina. en erected on this road are scattered along the cliffs and are in the most secluded section of May-view Park and yet are conveniently within reach of the village of Blowing Rock. Wonderland Trail begins at the main street of Blowing Rock at the entrance to Mayview Park and continuing pastLake Mayview, an artificial lake of three acres, it climbs in circuitous broad turns and long stretches, along the crest of thepeak to Mayview Rock. All trails within the property lead to this point where one obtains the marvelous views of the BlueRidge. Table Rock, Hawks Bill, Beech Mountain and Hanging Rock with Clingmans Dome and Mount Mitchell in thedistance in the great Black Mountain group are visible with countless other gigantic peaks on the fine clear days of sum-mer. Mount Mitchell is the highest point east of the Rockies, rearing its great blue dome 6,711 feet above the level of thesea. There are twenty-three peaks in North Carolina higher than Mount Washington in New Hampshire, and Watauga. Wonderland Trail in the jt construction. County is in the highest general altitude, its lowest level being 3,000 feet, of any other county in the mountainous section ofNorth Carolina. All roads in the Blowing Rock region and on the Mayview Park property find their devious ways at an alti-tude which varies from four thousand to five thousand feet. North Carolina contains the oldest forest land in the United States and seventy-six percent is still forested, a littlemore than three million acres in the sixteen counties which enclose within their boundaries the range of the Blue County is all in this section and Mayview Park is at the top-most point of one of the many peaks of the Grand-father. All roads and foot paths are carefully graded and the viewpoints are easily accessible either by motor, on horsebackor by walking. The clear waters of Lake Mayview are ideal for swimming and give an added beauty to the park.
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