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Pisgah View State Park Bill Signed Last Month
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through Citizen-Times' website.
On July 19, Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law stating that N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources should create Pisgah View State Park, which will be roughly 1,600 acres, sitting mostly in Candler, with a small parcel in Haywood County. Buncombe County will get its first state park, where residents will get a front-row seat for viewing Mount Pisgah and watching wildlife, hiking ridge lines, and maybe even take in a horseback ride.
According to Citizen Times writer Karen Chavez, "Earlier in the month the governor also signed into law two bills creating the Northern Peaks State Trail in Watauga and Ashe counties, the Wilderness Gateway State Trail in the South Mountains range in McDowell, Rutherford, Burke and Catawba counties, and the Overmountain Victory State Trail reaching across Avery, Mitchell, McDowell, Burke, Rutherford, Polk, Caldwell, Wilkes and Surry counties. The new state park land will become the closest state park to Asheville, about a 30-minute drive from downtown. It will be the 40th park added to the N.C. State Park System in the past 100 years and the sixth in Western North Carolina.
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