{"id":310,"date":"2010-05-16T20:42:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T01:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-05-30T20:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T01:52:37","slug":"glassmine-falls-walker-knob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Glassmine Falls \/ Walker Knob"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/glassmine_falls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311\" title=\"glassmine_falls\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/glassmine_falls.jpg\" alt=\"Glassmine Falls\" width=\"433\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/glassmine_falls.jpg 433w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/glassmine_falls-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glassmine Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At 800 ft. high, Glassmine Falls is one of the highest in the Eastern US. It&#8217;s seasonal and this overlook off of the Blue Ridge Parkway is about the only vantage point. It drops into the Asheville watershed which is closed to all activity including hiking.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/painted_trilliums.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-312\" title=\"painted_trilliums\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/painted_trilliums.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Trilliums\" width=\"441\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/painted_trilliums.jpg 441w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/painted_trilliums-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted Trilliums<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the Glassmine overlook, the Mountains to Sea Trail runs north to the Black Mountains and Mt. Mitchell.\u00a0 This section crosses over Walker Knob (not to be confused with the Walker Knob above Montreat, which is probably visible from here).\u00a0\u00a0 In May there are a lot of wildflowers in this area including the painted trilliums above, and the fringed phacelia below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fringed_phacelia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313\" title=\"fringed_phacelia\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fringed_phacelia.jpg\" alt=\"Fringed Phacelia\" width=\"439\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fringed_phacelia.jpg 439w, http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fringed_phacelia-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fringed Phacelia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 800 ft. high, Glassmine Falls is one of the highest in the Eastern US. It&#8217;s seasonal and this overlook off of the Blue Ridge Parkway is about the only vantage point. It drops into the Asheville watershed which is closed to all activity including hiking. From the Glassmine overlook, the Mountains to Sea Trail &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glassmine Falls \/ Walker 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":[13,4,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-ridge-parkway","category-hiking","category-mountains-to-sea-trail","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}