Carvers Gap News Today

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ROAN MOUNTAIN — A small but very important parcel of land in the Roan Highlands has been acquired by the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, a nonprofit land trust conserving land

ROAN MOUNTAIN — Two special events are being offered to the public in the coming weeks at Roan Mountain State Park.

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ROAN MOUNTAIN — With the Rhododendron Festival just days away, both lanes of the highway leading to the Cloudland Gardens are open, but the plants in the garden aren’t quite ready to bloom. A work crew did its part on Tuesday morning, finishing the patching job on the highway from Carvers Gap to the Cloudland Gardens. The crew finished up by lunchtime, collected the traffic warning signs and departed. Long strips of still-hot asphalt lined a long section of the eastern side of the roa...

ROAN MOUNTAIN — Pisgah National Forest has announced the temporary closure of Applanchian Road, North Carolina Route 1406, the access road that leads from Carvers Gap up to Toll House

Important Roan Mountain tract now in public ownership The Roan Mountain Gateway provides beautiful views of the iconic area. USFS/Dan Belanger photo A 91-acre area known as the Roan Mountain Gateway is now in U.S. Forest Service ownership after the Southern Appalachians Highlands Conservancy recently transferred it to public ownership.  The acreage was the last privately owned land on N.C. 261 before reaching the popular Carvers Gap area, where the Appalachian Trail crosses. The R...

Michelle Pugliese moved to Asheville on a blustery day in November 2007 and the next morning needed to see for herself the famed mountain known as the Roan, where the mighty Appalachian Trail travels through Mitchell County. “I fell in love with the Roan the first time I saw it. I had no idea as I was driving up to Carvers Gap that I was driving by this property,” said Pugliese, land protection director for the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. The Asheville-based nonprofit land t...

ROAN MOUNTAIN — There is no other state park in Tennessee that has a winter quite like Roan Mountain State Park. This is a place where temperatures fall below freezing and stay there for lengthy periods of time, where snow stubbornly refuses to melt and the place where cross country skiers and snowshoers go to enjoy their favorite season. “Roan Mountain is an all-season park,” Park Ranger Marcianne O’Day said. “We have a lot of people who love winter who come here to ca...