Great Smokey Mountain National Park is a 95 miles as the crow flies (Mile High
Swinging Bridge to Newfound Gap) and according to this calculator, from an
altitude of 5280 ft the distance to the horizon is 89 miles.
http://www.ringbell.co.uk/info/hdist.htm
IF the weather is clear, you can see Charlotte (81.93 mi)from the top of GFM
and you can see Mount Mitchell(33.22 mi).
There's a city park in Boone, NC that's up on top of a mountain, and you can
see Grandfather Mountain from there and if the weather is right (low overcast)
all you'll see is the top of the mountain sticking out of a sea of clouds.
According to the NPS, the Blue Ridge Parkway "is technically a national /parkway/" ...
"However, both are operated by the National Park Service"
https://www.nps.gov/blri/faqs.htm
On 12/7/2017 16:01, ann sanfedele wrote:
I didn't know about GFM becoming a State Park, Blue RIdge isn't a National
Park - according to list I saw recent.
I think you _can_ see Smokey mountains in distance from tippy top of
Grandfather mt...
ann
On 12/7/2017 3:03 PM, John wrote:
Great Smokey Mountains NP is a bit far to be seen from GFM.
OTOH, the Blue Ridge Parkway's Glenn Cove Viaduct is on
Grandfather Mountain and it's only a mile from the GFM
entrancegate to the Blue Ridge Parkway access from US-221.
On 12/6/2017 10:20, ann sanfedele wrote:
GFM is private land... but photos you took there, given you pointed your camera
in the right direction,
would have given you the Great Smokey Mountains NP
ann
On 12/6/2017 10:06 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
Skipped this one as i THOUGHT i had not been to a national park, then
remembered to late that GFM is one. Arg
Dave
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote:
ann sanfedele wrote:
I counted the parks I've been to in North America
and there are 7 of them.. (two of the same park, amazingly - YOHO)
including mine, of course...
Some people just have good taste :-)
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