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This Grandfather mountain which is a part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.
If you’ve seen my Wilderness Run Alpine Coaster video. This is about 15 mins away.
When you arrive you will receive a CD that will be the audio guide to the mountain. On the back is a map of the major areas.
There are trails to hike but I wanted to come see the animal habitat and the mile high swinging bridge.
There are a lot of panic areas you can stop at along the way up to the top of the mountain.
From the front gate to the top is two and a half miles. But the first parking area you can stop at will be Sphinx and Split Rocks.
You can walk to the Animal habitats from here or you can drive around to the next parking lot
which is in front of the restaurant and walk back down if this lot is full.
The main building in the center has a restaurant and a gift shop. If you don’t see anything you like
at the top of the mountain there is another gift shop.
The last stop on the mountain is the Mile High Swinging Bridge. Like I said at the start the audio guide that talks about this in detail.
To get to the bridge you can walk up the steps or go into the gift shop and use the elevator.
The bridge is metal and they do close it for everyone’s safety if there is lightning nearby.
The roads do curve a lot on the mountain and I think the best views are on the way back down.
You'll hear about this on the audio guide but I was able to film it on the way back down.
This is the curved road that Tom Hanks ran on in the movie Forrest Gump.
There are a couple signs that let you know this is the Forrest Gump Curve.
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