NC Gazetteer

Mount Pisgah

Also known as: Big Pisgah, Great Pisgah, El-see-toss
A mountain in Haywood County and Buncombe County
… on the Buncombe-Haywood county line NW of Little Pisgah Mountain. Alt. 5,721. Also sometimes known as Big Pisgah and Great Pisgah. View from its top includes points in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. Reached by U.S. Forest Service trail from the Blue Ridge Parkway at Pisgah Inn. Named for the biblical mountain from which Moses saw the Promised Land. Known by the Indians as El-see-toss