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North Carolina Beauty *********
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Montreat, North Carolina showing the full autumn pallete of colors.
Black Mountain, North Carolina with a beautiful frosting of winter.
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At the foot of Mount Mitchell, the tallest peak in the USA east of the Missippi River, is an old excavation mining area called Pensacola. This is a spectacular fall color shot near there.
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Driving across the border into east Tennessee through Flagpond into Erwin. Roadbeds used to follow riverbeds seeking level ground, no matter how twisted the course. Winter made for many bad wrecks below here as cars and heavy trucks came downhill the hard way, braking on switchback curves and sliding forwards or losing traction going uphill and sliding backwards into traffic. Today, viaducts and bridges like on I-26, lift you over the mountains and gorges with a straighter more gradual incline looking down on the old two lane road that curved for 20 miles and took 40 minutes of travel time. Plus you now get an incredible view.
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North Carolina stretches about 600 miles from it's furthest eastern border of the Outer Banks,
to the western border in the Appalachian Mountains
The black and white twist above the red brick base of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse is the most renowned and the tallest in the United States.
Looking Glass Rock seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway
It's easy to get to almost anywhere here. We have more miles of highway than any state in the Union. We are currently hosting the intersections of no less than 5 Interstate highways and there are two more under construction. 
Beech Mountain Snowfall
If you have never been to North Carolina, you have missed some of the last few places in the USA where you can sit on a mountain or a beach, without much driving or walking, and be completely alone.
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