Shining Rock
The parkway is loaded with tourist in October, but we still manage to get up there. This trip was a Jeep trip ,as we were hiking the Black Balsam area. It's near mp 420 on the Parkway. Come November the tourist will be gone, and for a few glorious weeks, the parkway will be open, dry, and ours!! ("Home" is somewhere to the right in the valley below.)
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