The two portions of Pisgah National Forest cover 504,787 acres of the Appalachians in western North Carolina. Two main mountain chains and several lesser ranges encompassed by the forest have twenty 6,000-foot peaks, including 6,684-foot Mount Mitchell, highest summit east of the Mississippi River. Mount Mitchell is in a 1,946-acre state park surrounded by the forest, adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Learn More...