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Zoos & Aquariums Attractions In North Carolina Mountains

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The Black Mountains are a mountain range in western North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. They are part of the Blue Ridge Province of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The Blacks are the highest mountains in the Eastern United States. The range takes its name from the dark appearance of the red spruce and Fraser fir trees that form a spruce-fir forest on the upper slopes which contrasts with the brown or lighter green appearance of the deciduous trees at lower elevations. The Eastern Continental Divide, which runs along the eastern Blue Ridge crest, intersects the southern tip of the Black Mountain range. The Black Mountains are home to ...
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Zoos & Aquariums Attractions In North Carolina Mountains

  • 1. Western North Carolina Nature Center Asheville
    North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh, which along with Durham and Chapel Hill is home to the largest research park in the United States . The most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the third largest banking center in the United States after New York City and San Francisco.The state has a wide range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell, the highest point in North America east of the Mississippi River. The climate of the coast...
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  • 2. Cherokee Bear Zoo Cherokee
    Cherokee is a census-designated place in Swain and Jackson counties in western North Carolina, United States, within the Qualla Boundary land trust. It is located in the Oconaluftee River Valley around the intersection of U.S. Route 19 and U.S. Route 441. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 2,138. Cherokee is the headquarters for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. To continue the heritage of the Cherokee in the town, several signs for streets and buildings are written in both Cherokee syllabary and English . Cherokee was previously known as Yellow Hill, which is still used in Cherokee : ᎡᎳᏬᏗ Elawodi.
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  • 3. Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies Gatlinburg
    Ripley Entertainment Inc. is an entertainment and edutainment holding company owned by the Jim Pattison Group of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company has its headquarters in an unincorporated part of southern Orange County, Florida, near Orlando, at an office complex near the intersection of Sand Lake Road and John Young Parkway.Originating with a small daily newspaper cartoon drawn by Robert Ripley, which debuted in 1918, the company today operates over 90 attractions under a dozen brands worldwide. The daily Believe It or Not! cartoon that catapulted Ripley to fame in the 1920s is still printed runs in hundreds of newspapers in over forty countries and dozens of languages. The 32 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museums that house his collection of oddities in various countries ...
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