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To purchase a print of this drawing by author/artist
Lee Pantas, visit
Cherry Orchard Studio
The
Blowing Rock
,
located near
Boone, is an immense cliff rising about 1,000 feet above the Johns
River Gorge below. The rock is named Blowing Rock because the cliff walls of the
gorge form a flume through which the north-west wind sweeps with such force that
it returns light objects cast over the cliff. This phenomena prompted the
Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” cartoon about “the only place in the world where
snow falls upside down.”
Website:
The
Blowing Rock
Location:
Blowing Rock, NC
Distance: 2 hours from Asheville
Address: Highway 321 South, Blowing Rock, NC 28605
Telephone: 828-295-7111
Hours: March, April, May and November: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; June-October: 8 a.m. to 8
p.m.; Closed December-February
Fees: $6 adults, $5 seniors, $1 ages 6-11, under 5 free
Allow:1 hour
Nearby:
Mariam & Robert Hayes Performing Arts Center,
Mast General Store,
Tweetsie
Railroad,
Linville Caverns,
Linville Gorge,
Grandfather Mountain,
Ben Long
Frescoes
Directions: From Blue Ridge Parkway take Boone exit to 321 South to Blowing
Rock. A faster route from Asheville is to take I-40 East to Marion and take Hwy.
221 North to Blowing Rock.
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