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Unaka and the Pisgah

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  • THE UNAKA AND THE PISGAH1 by Myron H. Avery. Unaka- “land of the White Mountains” – is a corruption of the Cherokee Indian name for a section of the Southern Appalachians. It is descriptive of the blue-gray haze, which so frequently hovers over its peeks. It also describes the characteristic white quartsite cliffs of the range. Today Unaka and Pisgah are the names of large units in the National Forest system. To the outdoor enthusiast the words have still another significance; they are contiguous sections of the Appalachian Trail through southwastern Virginia, Tennessee and along the Tennessee-North Carolina line. Their southern boundary is at the Big Pigeon River, the eastern boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the best-known and most frequented region in the Southern Appalachians. To the north it adjoins, at New River, the 195 mile Southern Virginia Appalacian Trail Association section2 of the through Trail. In the Unaka and the Pisgah sections the extremely complex geographical structure of the Southern Appalachians is fully developed. The Southern Appalachians are commonly thought of as composed of the Blue Ridge with ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. The assistance of Paul M. Fink and George Masa in the preparation of geographical and historical material for these notes, is gratefully acknowledged. 2. For an account of this region see APPALACHIAN TRAIL NOTES- SOUTHERN VIRGINIA: PEAKS OF OTTER TO NEW RIVER, Appalachia, June, 1932, pp. 161-5 and Potomac Appalachian Trail Club Bulletin, July, 1932; for the literature of the Great Smokies, see A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE GREAT SMOKIES, Appalachia, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 271-7.
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