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Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest

United States of America

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is a 3,800-acre tract of publicly owned old-growth forest in Graham County, North Carolina, named in memory of poet Joyce Kilmer, best known for his poem "Trees". One of the largest contiguous tracts of old growth forest in the Eastern United States, the area is administ

ered by the U. S. Forest Service. The forest features an easy two-mile, figure-eight trail that includes a memorial plaque at the juncture of the two loops. In 1975 the memorial forest was joined with a much larger tract of the Nantahala National Forest to become part of the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness.

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