Dot and Gentre may remember this -- Cold Mountain stands majestically to the west of where our road (Hwy 276) meets the Blue Ridge Parkway. We were there last night to enjoy a dinner at the Pisgah Inn and couldn't resist taking a few moments to enjoy the view as the sun was setting.
Cold Mountain is located within the Shining Rock Wilderness of the Pisgah National Forest about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast of Waynesville and 35 miles (56 kilometers) south of Asheville. The mountain lies completely within federal lands and is uninhabited. It rises to 6,030 feet (1,819 m) above sea level. It is the 40th tallest mountain in the eastern United States.
The mountain was made famous by the 1997 novel , "Cold Mountain," by Charles Frazier. A major motion picture based on the Civil War novel was distributed by Miramax Films in 2003. The movie was filmed in Romania and all this time we thought the location was West Virginia.
How wrong can one be?
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