@mackontheloose: 📍Mount Mitchell State Park At 6,684 feet, Mount Mitchell is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. Nestled in North Carolina’s Black Mountains, the park offers breathtaking views, cool alpine air and dense spruce-fir forests. It’s named after Dr. Elisha Mitchell, who tragically died in 1857 while trying to prove the mountain’s height and was later buried at its summit. #mountmitchell #wnc #blueridgemountains