Hiking to a Real Mountain Ghost Town! Lost Cove in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina

In this episode, Boots and channel newcomer @awdeaton take the steep journey down to the Lost Cove settlement, a real North Carolina Ghost Town! Lost Cove is located in Pisgah National Forest in Yancy County, NC, deep in the mountains. The journey is not for all, but is worth it if you are up for the challenge.

Lost Cove was formed by best guesses around the civil war era. The initial settlement is sometimes linked to a Daniel Boone expedition, other stories indicate Union soldiers were the initial settlers, and yet there are even more theories on the town's formation. At its height, the town had about 100 people with the last remaining resident leaving in 1957. There was once a church, school, and many other structures here. Timber, moonshine, and agriculture were the prominent industries here, but the town began to slowly die when the railroad stopped carrying passengers through this area and local municipalities would not construct a proper paved road into the area.

Our hike takes us several miles down the mountain where we saw old homesites, farmlands, homes, gravesites, and other structures. We also hiked all the way down to the Nolichucky River where the still active rail line travels parallel and down to a nice waterfall.

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