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Many Roanoke-area residents can immediately identify the illustration on the cover of “All About the Appalachian Trail” as McAfee Knob, the heavily trafficked terminus of Catawba Mountain in western Roanoke County that also happens to be the most-photographed location on the 2,200-mile-long trail.
Author Leonard Adkins once simply called it home.
“We lived just a few hundred feet below McAfee Knob on Appalachian National Scenic Trail lands caretaking a house for the National Park Service from 1993-1998,” said Adkins, via email. “The view from our front window was basically the same as that from the Knob, with deer and black bears as our closest neighbors. Almost every day started with a 1.5 mile (roundtrip) walk to the knob.” ....

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