Sugar Mountain, a 5,236-foot peak in North Carolina’s High Country within Pisgah National Forest, is crossed by the Eastern Continental Divide and feeds streams flowing toward the Linville, Elk, and North Toe rivers. Its north slope is home to the Village of Sugar Mountain, and the mountain serves as a year-round recreation area with hiking, biking, golf, skiing, snowboarding, and tubing. A major landmark, the Citadel condominium complex on Sugar Top, was built in 1983. Its stark profile provoked widespread opposition as an intrusion on the ridgeline and helped spur North Carolina’s Mountain Ridge Protection Act of 1983.

Sugar Mountain, North Carolina · USA