
Peaks of Grandfather Mountain
The print
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About the Peaks of Grandfather Mountain trail
Peaks of Grandfather Mountain gains 2,827 feet across 9.1 miles of out-and-back in West and Mountains, its elevation running from 3,832 feet up to 5,889 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 82 percent, against an average of 311 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the very strenuous band. The nearest town is Boone, 11 miles away.
The trail
Grandfather Mountain is a mountain, a non-profit attraction, and a North Carolina state park near Linville, North Carolina. At 5,946 feet (1,812 m), it is the highest peak on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Ridge Mountains, one of the major chains of the Appalachian Mountains.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Profilemi 2.5
- Alpine Meadowmi 3.8
- MacRae Peakmi 4.2
- Attic Windowmi 4.4
- Watauga Viewmi 5.4
- Foscoe Viewmi 6.9
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
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Place names along the route: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Place names: GeoNames.org (CC BY 4.0). Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.