Karen Chavez, Asheville Citizen-Times, 18 July 2016 – The Conservation Trust for North Carolina recently purchased the 50-acre Open Branch Headwaters property in Jackson County adjoining the Blue Ridge Parkway, which will soon be part of a brand new park within the parkway.

The property, near Parkway Milepost 452, three miles north of Waterrock Knob, rises to 5,400 feet in elevation and contains rare spruce-fir habitat and provides important watershed and viewshed protection.

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