{"id":224,"date":"2009-06-15T22:24:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T03:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2009-06-21T22:39:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T03:39:32","slug":"green-knob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Green Knob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green Knob is located just off the Blue Ridge Parkway a little north of Mt. Mitchell State Park.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230\" title=\"inside_green_knob1\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/inside_green_knob1.jpg\" alt=\"Green Knob Firetower\" width=\"326\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/inside_green_knob1.jpg 326w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/inside_green_knob1-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Knob Firetower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a half mile hike from the parkway or it can be reached from the Black Mountain campground which is much longer and more arduous. There&#8217;s not much of a view on the way up but the tower is situated to give a spectacular view of the Black Mountains.Inside Green Knob Fire Tower<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-228\" title=\"green_knob_firetower1\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/green_knob_firetower1.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Green Knob Fire Tower\" width=\"438\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/green_knob_firetower1.jpg 438w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/green_knob_firetower1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Green Knob Fire Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0The tower is open to hikers and slightly more comfortable than the rocks below it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The top of the trail is overgrown in the summer and requires a bit of pushing through rhododendrons.\u00a0 The view is also partially occluded in June, so it&#8217;s probably a better trip in early Spring or late Autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Knob is located just off the Blue Ridge Parkway a little north of Mt. Mitchell State Park. It&#8217;s a half mile hike from the parkway or it can be reached from the Black Mountain campground which is much longer and more arduous. There&#8217;s not much of a view on the way up but the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=224\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green Knob<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-ridge-parkway","category-hiking","category-pisgah-nf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}