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 Thank you for your interest in our
beautiful New Forest Mountain.
The most important attribute of this area is the Thermal Belt. This is the only documented Thermal Zone in the U.S. It affords a very mild and short winter, explosive springs, cool summers, and long, cool, and incredibly colorful falls. Snowfall, if any, is very limited in winter and is usually gone by afternoon. The mountain has very gentle grades to access the top, and we have installed about five miles of roads and applied packed white limestone to the surfaces. The power and telephone lines have been buried in the road bed to avoid the use of unattractive and unnatural telephone/power poles. The Protective Covenants are designed to avoid noise, and to promote the maintenance of the natural beauty of the mountain. There is no time limitation as to when a structure may be built. New Forest has a great quantity of mountain laurel and rhododendrons, some thirty feet high. There are nearly 2400 wild flower types, and plenty of white tail deer, raccoons, squirrels, fox , etc. The closest 'loaf of bread' is six miles, and shopping centers are fifteen miles away, on very good roads, in Forest City. A very modern 145 bed hospital is just twelve miles away.
The place is right, the climate is right, the price is right.
Dave Robinson
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I had spent many years looking
for a place for retirement. In 1987 I selected Western North Carolina as the place to
investigate. Armed with a topographical map, I began to seek a proper site: no dense
population, four seasons, a mild climate, a mountain environment with substantial views, a
good road system, and a friendly local population. After eleven months of daily and
intensive investigation, including walking every mountain top from Morganton, North
Carolina to North Western Georgia, I found the ideal location in the Blue Ridge Mountains
near Rutherfordton, N.C. It's located in the little known but highly desirable Thermal
Belt of the Western North Carolina mountains. This "Belt" is only 20 miles long
and from 6 to 20 miles wide. New Forest Mountain was not for sale at the time and, in
fact, had not been sold since 1934. All of that time it was owned, along with 27,000 other
acres, by a furniture company. They would selectively timber about 10% of the trees for
furniture manufacture every 30 years or so. The last time they selectively timbered New
Forest was 35 years ago, so New Forest has a substantial stand of furniture grade red oak,
white oak, black oak, maple, birch, tulip poplar, and hickory hardwoods. Dogwoods,
sourwoods, holly trees, pines, hemlock, pink and white flowering mountain laurel and
rhododendron constitute the rest of the foliage, in generous proportions.
