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The angel that inspired the title of Wolfe's novel Look Homeward Angel actually stands in a graveyard in the middle of Hendersonville, a town about 20 miles to the Southeast of Asheville. Wolfe's father, a stone mason, sold the piece to a local family for use in the cemetery.
The interior of the house is only open to the public on weekends. I managed a couple of passable shots of some of the rooms through the windows. Obviously, we weren't there during the weekend!
The property hosts a barn of which it is next to impossible to NOT get a perfect scenic picture. I could not find a date for when the barn was built. I doubt it was original to the house, and was most likely built later.
The highest point in the park is not The Rock. Exclamation point is another couple of hundred of stone and wood steps above The Rock. Worth the extra climb!
One path takes you away from The Rock and leads into Hickory Nut Gorge to a sheer waterfall that spills mistily over the rock face and spills to the ground below.
The park is vertical. No other way to describe it. You either walk or climb up or down the entire time you're there!
The Four Seasons Trail connects the middle part of the park, where the climb up to The Rock begins, with the lower entrance area. The move "Last of the Mohicans" was filmed here, and while the area looks nothing like New York, the whole park suggests a Hollywood movie set. 
