Forested Land in Yancey County, NC

Yancey County's forests climb from the valleys around Burnsville all the way to the summit of Mount Mitchell, passing through every forest type the southern Appalachians can produce — cove hardwoods, oak-hickory, northern hardwoods, and rare spruce-fir at the peaks. The Black Mountains harbor some of the highest-elevation forests east of the Rockies. At Yancey's affordable prices, heavily forested tracts are within reach of most budgets. LandMatch maps NLCD forest cover on every parcel.