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Unaka and the Pisgah

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  • The Unaka and Pisgah sections of the Appalachian Trail utilize, for the most part, Forest Service trails. Much of eastern Unaka is still in private ownership and there are extensive areas of cleared crest, affording magnificent views but precluding close marking of the Trail; the route, however, is unmistakable in clear weather. At the crossing of U. S. Highway No. 56 at the Old Dry Run of the Coast of Geodetic Survey Lindenkohl chart of 1864 (based on the Guyot map), the trail finally plunges into the Forest and is uninterrupted Forest Service trail, except at the crossing of the river valleys. Through the Unaka National Forest the trail was marked by Forest Guards under the direction of Forest Supervisor C. L. Graham. Forest Guard C. S. Jackson has marked the route from Dixon Ferry on New River to U. S. Highway No. 58. White paint blazes have been used along the cleared summits of eastern Unaka. The twenty-eight miles of Southern Unaka from the Nolichucky River south to Devil’s Fork Gap (N. C. Highway No. 212) and the sixty miles of the Pisgah section have been marked. Under the direction of the Carolina Mountain Club. My acquaintance with the Unaka and Pisgah dates back to trips in 1952 through those sections made for the purpose of measuring the Trail and obtaining Trail data. The resulting trail data have, for convenience, been divided into Northern and Southern sections. The Northern Unaka Trail data will be included in the second edition of GUIDE TO PATHS IN THE BLUE RIDGE, issued in 1933 by the Fontana Appalachian Trail Club, Washington, D. C. as the Virginia-Tennessee boundary forms the division between the third and fourth of the series of four Guidebooks to the Appalachian Trail, the Southern Unaka and -8 –
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