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Attractions near Hunter

Mount Mitchell & 24 more attractions near Hunter

25 notable places within 60 miles of Hunter: 1 national park unit, 2 ski areas, and the sights travelers look up most.

Attractions nearby
25
within 60 miles
The big one
45 mi
Mount Mitchell
National park units
1
parks & monuments
Ski areas
2
Sugar Mountain Resort
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Mountain · 45 mi south

Mount Mitchell

Highest mountain in the Eastern United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

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What’s around Hunter

Orange: Hunter. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below.

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© OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Best known first

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Parkway · 27 mi southeast · read 93K times a year on Wikipedia

Scenic parkway that runs between Shenandoah National Park in west central Virginia and Great Smoky National Park in western North Carolina.

16.5M visitors a year

Parks and trails in Hunter → · Hunter’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Mount Mitchell: Unknown, Public domain · Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Grandfather Mountain: Original uploader was KyleAndMelissa22 at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Mount Rogers: USDA-FS, Public domain · United States Penitentiary: Nyttend, Public domain · Black Mountain: iLoveMountains.org, CC BY 2.0 · Grayson Highlands State Park: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Cherokee National Forest: Ryan Rice at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Linville Gorge Wilderness: No machine-readable author provided. Amcbride~commonswiki assumed (based on copy, Public domain · Sugar Mountain Resort: Mark Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Linville Falls: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Barter Theatre: RebelAt (talk) (Uploads), Public domain · Andrew Johnson National Historic Site: Brian Stansberry, CC BY 3.0 · Moses H. Cone Memorial Park: Bill Russ photographer, Public domain · Botanical Gardens at Asheville: Zen Sutherland aka Zen sutherland at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Folk Art Center: Doug Coldwell, CC BY-SA 4.0

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