the sub-alpine regions of the appalachian plateaus are beautiful destinations for outdoor activities

I believe the lightest gray-blue hills in the center background are mt mitchell (now closed from hurricane helene) - which you can also see (among other places) at blowing rock so you can see the same hill from totally different directions both maybe 50+ mi away because you are so high up

and you also get to see the colors change with yellow and green and red in spring and fall and deep green in summer almost dark green if it's a wet summer
and a foreboding cloudy winter day can have its own scenic magic

has anyone else been to a nice sub-alpine area in the east?
the main problem is they stole all the trees so the ridges at 2500+ ft elevation would generally have been mostly things like pine and hemlock and fir and spruce and when they chopped those down it changed the fungus in the soil and mostly hardwood trees grew back and the conifers that did grow back are nowhere near as big so you can't really see anywhere what that all-conifer sub-alpine virgin forest would have been like they never spared a single ridge and if they did its private property