It was a warm day verging on hot and just right for visiting such a site. The elevator was not working so we walked up the 480some steps (we had been forewarned) which was a challenge and it seemed that half the people climbing the steps took a breather a couple of times on the way up.
Looking up from the bottom of the steps you can see about a quarter of the way up. Yes, that is flag rock on top of that phallic looking rock structure. It is good thinking on the part of the Park Service to put so many nooks to stand in on the way up ... they were well used.
We were fortunate in that this is still the off season and while there were a goodly amount of people there, it was not crowded and relatively few children and pets. (No, they are not in the same category!)
From the top, the chimney looked like this:
We had discussed going from Chimney Rock to Dupont State Park which is filled with water falls and trails but the climb was quite sufficient exercise for one day, so we returned home.
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