Mount Pisgah Campground: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Blue Ridge Parkway - Pisgah District, National Park Service
The Jaeger Company, Contractor and Pond and Company, Contractor. 2011. Mount Pisgah Campground: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Blue Ridge Parkway - Pisgah District, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 550220. NPS Southeast Regional Office. Southeast Regional Office/CLI Database
The Mount Pisgah Campground is a seventy-four acre component landscape of the Blue Ridge Parkway, located in the North Carolina section at Milepost 408.7. The campground is a designed landscape within a natural setting. Significant features of the campground include rustic features such as concrete tables and stone-faced water fountains, as well as the systems of trails and roadways that were created when the Mount Pisgah Campground was constructed in 1968. Buildings and structures on the site include five comfort stations and an amphitheater, all built in that same year. Contemporary buildings are limited to a 1991 ranger residence and a 2001 fee collection building that are both located near the campground entrance. The period of significance is 1968, the year the campground was constructed as part of National Park Service Mission 66 development along the Blue Ridge Parkway. In this year, the 1930s U.S. Forest Service Frying Pan Gap Camping Area was incorporated into the current Mount Pisgah Campground, and updates to the existing layout were made as part of this period of new development. While the overall location remained the same, individual campsites were reconfigured, road layout was modified, and an amphitheater was added. The present campground reflects the design of the 1968 development, part of a wider process occurring during that period along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The campground is currently in good condition. Its use is the same as it was historically, with the main threat to integrity coming from the amount of visitor usage it receives during the operating season. Vegetation within the landscape boundary has become threatened as a result of its popularity. The Mount Pisgah Campground retains integrity as a component landscape of the Mount Pisgah Recreation Area landscape.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- The Jaeger Company, Contractor; Pond and Company, Contractor
- Date of Issue
- 2011-09-23
- Publisher
- NPS Southeast Regional Office
- Units
- BLRI , SER
- Keywords
- Ampitheater, Architecture, Asheville, Automobile Age, Blue Ridge Parkway, Campground, Cherokee Nation, Comfort Station, Conservation, Frying Pan Gap Camping Area, George Vanderbilt, Haywood County, hiking trail, Historic Designed Landscape, Historic Preservation, Landscape architecture, Loop Road, Mission 66, National Forest, North Carolina, Protection of Natural and Cultural Resources, Scenic Preservation, Transportation, Transylvania County