Mountain name(s) (Asheville, Black Mountain, Fairview: apartment, live, mall)

[MsDad]

We're getting ready to move into our new apartment in Verde Vista, just off Fairview Rd and Bleachery Blvd. Our apartment will look out over the Walmart and the mountain(s) beyond. Does anyone know what mountain or mountains we'll be looking at? I think the closest one is Beaucatcher but I'm not 100% sure and I don't know have a clue what's beyond. I have scoured the web looking for a topographical map, to no avail. Any input would be appreciated. I'm a details kinda guy and it's driving me nuts. Many thanks!

[gigimac]

Well, Mapquest will name SOME of the very distant mountains, and I can recall seeing a map (probably on my bookshelf) that names a range I was interested in and the "subnames" of ridges and tops along there, since I had been looking at one a long time, Spivey Mountain, and was moving and was going to be seeing another one nearby, Starnes Ridge. There are so many knobs, tops, balds, ridges, mountains in the area, that I suppose if you went down to the Visitor Center in town, I think it's over on Montford now, and looked thru a few local maps, you might find some more local mountain names.

But as for where you are, looking northwest, the mountain between you and downtown Asheville via the tunnel is indeed Beaucatcher. If you came out of where you are and passed the Asheville Mall on your left, and kept going north-northwest on Tunnel Road, all along the left side and where the tunnel goes thru is Beaucatcher Mountain. Now, the mountain that nearly everyone who lives in Asheville sees from time to time, on the very distant horizon due West, is Mount Pisgah. You can recognize it because it's an A-shaped mountain, higher than any others, and has a big antennae on top. In Black Mountain, if you walk around Lake Tomahawk in town, at the south end is a resting bench with a plaque that tells you you're looking at "The Seven Sisters," and it traces the shape of their peaks on a little map of sorts.

Another mountain I see a lot of from diff parts of town is East, it's where the town of Black Mountain is, I40 East goes right past it, and it may be called Blk Mt., but I call it "Sleeping Bear," because it looks for all the world to be the nose and paws of a black bear touching the freeway, and then backing off to the north you can see the eyes and ridge that makes his head, and then his body behind that. Probably too much information, and plus I just KNOW somebody here has got that map I've seen or have, and can list off all the mts you can probably see from your location just south-southeast of the Asheville Mall.

[MsDad]

Thanks gigimac! Since I posted the question I've two native Ashevillians tell me it's Beaucatcher Mtn and Town Mtn but that map sure would come in handy to confirm. I'll have to go to the Visitor Center (which I've also been told about) and see if I can track down that map. I did call them and they told me about the map, which they said was a relief map and would look great framed, so it would be a neat conversation piece when we have family visit from FL or OH...