When was the last time you had to saddle up a horse just to go shopping for rocks?
Little Pine Garnet Mine near Marshall, North Carolina, takes the concept of “off the beaten path” and launches it into another dimension entirely.
You know how sometimes you drive past a tourist trap and think, “Well, that was easy to get to”? This is the opposite of that.
Little Pine Garnet Mine sits tucked away in the mountains of Madison County, accessible only by horseback through trails that wind through some of the most gorgeous terrain Western North Carolina has to offer…