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Blue Ridge Parkway Project
The Conservation Trust for North Carolina announced May 17, 2005 that it has donated over a 63-acre property at the Jumpin-Off Rock Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway to the National Park Service for inclusion in the Park’s boundaries. The property is an entirely forested site that provides visitors with pristine views of the spectacular mountain landscape of the region. The Overlook is located at Milepost 260.2 and is the first overlook south of the Northwest Trading Post in Ashe County.
The Conservation Trust acquired the land in September of 2001 to protect it from being developed. “Development of this land would have ruined the view visitors experience from the Jumpin-Off Rock Overlook,” said Reid Wilson, Conservation Trust Executive Director. “The National Park Service had targeted this site for protection.”
Press Release
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