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10-K
07-10-2012, 17:57
Making the final plans to hike from Balsam Gap to Pisgah Inn next week and am wondering if there's parking -preferably safe - at Balsam Gap?

If I read Winged Monkey's Mt. Pisgah Map (thanks for that!) correctly there is trailhead parking around Pisgah Inn ....

Trying to figure out if we can take 2 cars or just 1....

Rasty
07-10-2012, 20:41
Black Balsam on the Art Loeb?

WingedMonkey
07-10-2012, 20:52
Try here, I can't remember the what the actual parking is like.

http://www.hikewnc.info/trailheads/pisgah/pisgah/black.html

10-K
07-10-2012, 20:56
Black Balsam on the Art Loeb?

Balsam Gap on the Blue Ridge Parkway.. Not the ALT.

Mile marker 442.2 http://www.mountaintvguide.com/content/blue-ridge-parkway-mileposts.html

Tennessee Viking
07-10-2012, 21:25
There is parking at the Pisgah Inn and the Mt Pisgah Campground and Overlook.

At Balsam Gap, there is small little picnic area on the parkway where the MST enters and crosses onto adjoining road just north of Balsam Gap.

10-K
07-10-2012, 21:26
There is parking at the Pisgah Inn and the Mt Pisgah Campground and Overlook.

At Balsam Gap, there is small little picnic area on the parkway where the MST enters and crosses onto adjoining road just north of Balsam Gap.

Would you park at the Balsam Gap picnic area for 2.5 - 3 days?

WingedMonkey
07-10-2012, 21:29
My bad, thought y'all were going south, can't remember that pull out, do remember plenty of parking at Graggy Gardens.

Rasty
07-10-2012, 21:36
Black Balsam on the Art Loeb?

Balsam Gap on the Blue Ridge Parkway.. Not the ALT.

Mile marker 359.8 http://www.mountaintvguide.com/content/blue-ridge-parkway-mileposts.html

OK. Way to many Balsam this, balsam that. I thought of the parking lot on Black Balsam road which I parked at for five days.

10-K
07-10-2012, 21:41
Yeah.. there is a Balsam Gap at mile marker 359 and 442....

BTW, I lived in Wilmington for 25 years before moving to Erwin a few years ago. My business is still there and I'm back and forth between here and there all the time.

We lived south of Monkey Junction off River Rd....

Rasty
07-10-2012, 21:57
Yeah.. there is a Balsam Gap at mile marker 359 and 442....

BTW, I lived in Wilmington for 25 years before moving to Erwin a few years ago. My business is still there and I'm back and forth between here and there all the time.

We lived south of Monkey Junction off River Rd....

Live just north of monkey junction. Drive to southport every day for work. Good luck with your trip.

WingedMonkey
07-10-2012, 22:15
Yeah.. there is a Balsam Gap at mile marker 359 and 442.....

When you get to mile marker 396.8 at Reynolds Gap, give a shout out to my great great great great grandfather. Abraham Reynolds

10-K
07-10-2012, 22:20
When you get to mile marker 396.8 at Reynolds Gap, give a shout out to my great great great great grandfather. Abraham Reynolds

I'll do it.. Are you still using his Sawyer water filter?

WingedMonkey
07-10-2012, 22:28
I'll do it.. Are you still using his Sawyer water filter?

Nope, but I still got his maps that show me where all the creeks are that don't need it.

:p