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The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games is a Highland games event that has been held annually since 1956 at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina. Celebrating the history and culture of Scots in North Carolina, it is among the first and largest modern Highland games established in the United States. Competitions and displays take place in ...
Grandfather Mountain[ 1] is a mountain, a non-profit attraction, and a North Carolina state park near Linville, North Carolina. At 5,946 feet (1,812 m), it is the highest peak on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Ridge Mountains, one of the major chains of the Appalachian Mountains. (Nearby Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak east of the ...
Worldwide, however, it is exceeded in terms of spectators by three gatherings in the United States: the estimated 30,000 [3] that attend Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina; the New Hampshire Highland Games & Festival, which attracts over 35,000 annually; and the even larger Northern California gathering—the largest in the Northern ...
A former Grandfather Mountain Highland Games employee was sentenced in Asheville federal court for an explosive device found in the games' office.
Scottish Games in North Carolina. Scottish Games in North Carolina may refer to: Grandfather Mountain Highland Games. Scotland County Highland Games (North Carolina) Category: Disambiguation pages.
Today, local pride in the Scottish Highland heritage of local pioneers remains very common in North Carolina. One of North America's largest Highland games events, the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, are held there every year and draw in visitors from all over the world.
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Centered just south of US 221 and NC 105, the community is known as a summer mountain resort and host of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, the largest modern Highland games events in North Carolina.