Mount Mitchell is the highest point in the state of North Carolina at 6,684ft (2,037m). It is located about 35 miles northeast Ashville, in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians. The summit is inside the Mount Mitchell State Park, in the Pisgah National Forest. During the summer months, you can expect a variety of wildflowers to be in bloom. Trout fishing is also popular in the creeks that run off the Black Mountain Crest. The weather at the summit consists of mild humid summers and long moderately cold winters.
The mountain was named after Elisha Mitchell, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who determined its height in 1835, and fell to his death at nearby Mitchell Falls in 1857, having returned to verify his earlier measurements.
