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Grayson Highlands and its wild ponies
1975
Grayson Highlands State Park, Grayson County, Virginia
Virginia State Parks staff · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Above five thousand feet the trees give out and Virginia turns into open grassland, kept that way by a herd of small wild ponies introduced in the 1970s to graze the balds rather than pay for mowing. Hikers on the Appalachian Trail come over the ridge and find them standing in the path, entirely unbothered. Mount Rogers, the highest ground in the state, is a short walk further into the spruce.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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