Mount Pilot, North Carolina-Pilot Mountain

What a beautiful day I had to take pictures. Happy little clouds everywhere! You almost feel like you can reach out and touch them on days like this!

Wow is this one fantastic place? The beauty leaves you speechless. Even if heights do not bother you this is a breathless beauty!

Known to many as Mount Pilot from the Andy Griffith show; honoring this great mountain that was not only a guide for planes but travelers as far back as civilization; who used this odd deformity to gauge their whereabouts. The Moravian I have written about in other historic North Carolina articles were also a part of this area’s past. If you are interested in American history you will want to take a look at those being our first history in America.

I watched old Andy shows and heard of Mount Pilot so many times. It was big city to them and so imagine my surprise when I visited Pilot Mountain the town and Mt Airy where Andy was actually born. We visited Aunt Bee’s which I cannot give a recommendation to, I am sorry, but you may want to find where Andy still has occasion to have his favorite pork chop.

We southerners are proud of all our plain simple folk that have made it big in this dirty old world with their niceness and southern charm! So taking in all these sites of ones from long ago and the Moravian I have before written about has been a real adventure that I have enjoyed a few years now and it never ceases to thrill me.

This mountain has high bare rock walls, with a round top covered in plant life, going over 1400 feet higher than all around it. You can see just some of the breathtaking beauty from these pictures I have taken high in the sky; that changes with every season of course. The birds love to fly and dive as our entertainment each and every time, no matter the season. You go and you never want to leave.

There are trails for hikers, horseback and canoe with miles to explore and drinking water and restrooms. The picnic grounds in the Yadkin River section of the park are about a half mile from the edge of the river. Picnic areas also are located in an open area along Horne Creek which is adjacent with these park grounds and a fantastic new find all by itself, recapturing the past. It is a wonderful place I have visited that would be thrilling if I am allowed to tell about it at another time. There is fishing and hunting here.

I will leave a link for you to find the times and many benefits since those are considered duplicate if I tell you here.

No one who comes south will ever forget it, and especially the true Carolinians. We have something very special besides total honesty and charm. Come and enjoy the fun, the beauty and the southern hospitality!

Yall come soon now, hear?

http://www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/pimo/main.php