Grandfather Mountain and Price Lake

I am so sorry I couldn't post these any faster! I have been swamped with lots and lots and lots to do.

I took these pictures on the way out to Wilderness Trail the day before yesterday. Right off the Blue Ridge Parkway is a park named "Julian Price Memorial Park". At this park is Price Lake, which sits in the shadows of Grandfather Mountain when the sun sets in the west. The lake is one of my favorites, and close to my house. It is stocked with trout and bass, and fishing is great during non-busy weeks. Julian Price Park sits on about 3900 acres of mountain land that was donated by an insurance company back in the day. Some of the features of Price Park are picnic grounds, campgrounds, rest rooms, nature walks, an amphitheater, hiking trails, trout fishing and boat rentals. You can rent canoes or row boats by the hour or by the day at pretty reasonable rates. I think it was $6 for 2 hours last time I rented, but that was years ago. Since then I bought my own canoe to take out to different places. That canoe has been through some wild trips, but all were fun, if not death defying..which I will have to write about one day.

Anyhoo, there are trails in the park, which vary in length, but all take you through the forests, by the streams and into the meadows of the park, and one loops around the lake that is pretty easy for even the most civil of humans ;-) Enjoy!

Grandfather Mountain from Julian Price Memorial Park

Taken early in the morning, these guys were reeling them in! (I was very Jealous)

Took this one from a trail around the park, I was tempted not to leave for the office

This is the Boone Fork Dam, which was dammed to create the lake in Julian Price's memory.