Some of the main tourist attractions within the city include: the Shania Twain Centre, Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour, The Timmins Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Cedar Meadows Wilderness Tours, Kamiskotia Snow Resort, Porcupine Ski Runners Cross-Country Trails and Chalet, Hollinger Golf Club, Spruce Needles Golf Club, the Sandy Falls Golf Club, the McIntyre Community Building and the Timmins Snowmobile Club.

In 1965 Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area became the first NRA under the administration of the U. S. Forest Service and, in 1972 Congress created Gateway National Recreation Area under the management of the National Park Service thereby becoming the first " urban national park ".

Muskeg is wet, acidic, and relatively infertile which prevents large trees from growing, although stunted Shore Pine, cottonwood, some species of willow, and Black Spruce are typically found.

The county is home to the " Mineral City of the World ", Spruce Pine and Roan Mountain which includes the world's largest natural rhododendron garden, and the longest stretch of grassy bald in the Appalachian range.

Near the Casselman Bridge, a historic stone arch bridge, is Penn Alps Restaurant and The Spruce Forest Artisan Village, which was founded in 1957 by Alta Schrock.

Spruce Forest Artisan Village, a part of the extended Penn Alps campus, has grown from a few cabins to some 12 log and frame structures of early vintage, two of which date to the Revolutionary War Period.

The fires, which brought firemen from 4 counties around Spruce Pine, severely damaged the building housing Cheapskates Music on Lower Street, and caused some tense moments when it seemed that the fires might spread out of control and consume the downtown area.

Beginning in 2014 The North Carolina Department of Transportation, will begin widening US 19E, which is the major corridor linking the towns of Spruce Pine and Burnsville with Interstate 26.

He laid out along the main street which was the pre-existing Nine Mile Road, new cross streets named in alphabetical order after plants, beginning from the west: Ash, Beech, Cedar, Daisy, Elm, Fern, Grove, Holly, Ivy, Juniper, Kalmia, Linden, Maple, Oak, Pine, Quince, Rose, and Spruce.

Thousands of armed marchers passed through the town and surrounding region on their way to and from the fighting at Blair Mountain, which is located up Spruce Fork from Madison.

In the mountains of western Sweden scientists have found a Norway Spruce tree, nicknamed Old Tjikko, which by reproducing through layering has reached an age of 9, 550 years and is claimed to be the world's oldest known living tree .< ref >

The main inspiration, apart from beauty, is that this is a more environmentally friendly method which uses fast-growing plantation wood such as Paulownia, Cedar, Spruce, Redwood, and of course Balsa.

At times of drought and low water flow rates, the flow rate in the Raritan River is enhanced by planned discharges from the Round Valley Reservoir and Spruce Run Reservoir, both of which are located close to the South Branch of the Raritan River in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and are connected to the river via outflow pipes / channels.

Here, the route turns south and becomes Spruce Avenue, which heads between marshland to the west and resort homes to the east.

Then the species were unified and moved to the genus Dendragapus, congeneric with the Blue Grouse with which Spruce Grouse often share coniferous habitats.

The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is an aviation museum which displays a number of military and civilian aircraft and spacecraft, most notably, the Hughes H-4 Hercules " Spruce Goose ".

In March 1990, the Disney Corporation, which owned the Spruce Goose, announced that it was closing its exhibit located in Long Beach, California.

The eastern version of the Spruce Budworm is Choristoneura fumiferana, which is one of the most destructive native insects in the northern spruce and fir forests of the Eastern United States and Canada.

On some of the plains surrounding Great Slave Lake, climax polygonal bogs have formed, the early successional stage to which often consists of pioneer Black Spruce.

Markham and his team, which included the noted botanist Richard Spruce, left England for Peru in December 1859, arriving in Lima late in January 1860.

Although many of the Indian plantations failed to flourish and were soon destroyed by insects, others survived, and were augmented by species obtained by Richard Spruce which were more suited to Indian conditions.

Other species include Norway Spruce ( Picea abies ) and Lodgepole Pine ( Pinus contorta ), which cover 9 % of the area each.

Silver Fir is the species first used as a Christmas tree, but has been largely replaced by Nordmann Fir ( which has denser, more attractive foliage ), Norway Spruce ( which is much cheaper to grow ), and other species.

* Academia Pomeroy Covered Bridge at 278 feet to portal is the longest remaining covered bridge in Pennsylvania, crossing the Tuscarora Creek between Spruce Hill and Beale Townships.

* Academia Pomeroy Covered Bridge at 278 feet to portal is the longest remaining covered bridge in Pennsylvania, crossing the Tuscarora Creek between Spruce Hill and Beale Townships.

The Chew family ’ s house on Third Street was situated between Spruce and Walnut Streets, next door to the house of Philadelphia Mayor Samuel Powel and his wife, Elizabeth Willing Powel, who was one of George Washington ’ s closest confidantes.

In 1980, the Haym Solomon Lodge # 663 of the fraternal organization B ' rith Sholom sponsored a memorial in the Mikveh Israel Cemetery on the north side of Spruce Street between 8th and 9th Streets in Philadelphia.

Picea omorika, the Serbian Spruce (, ), is a spruce, endemic to the Drina River valley in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina near Višegrad and western Serbia, with a total range of only about 60 ha, between 800 – 1, 600 m altitude.

Passing through the Monongahela National Forest, US 33 crosses the Eastern Continental Divide between Harman and Onego at about elevation, entering Pendleton County, then descends the Allegheny Front along Seneca Creek, skirting the north end of Spruce Mountain, at the highest point of the Allegheny Mountains.

Shangla district, consists of small valleys, is situated between the hillocks and surrounded by high mountains full of forests comprising Pindrow Fir, Morinda Spruce, Blue Pine ( Kail ), Chir Pine and Deodar Cedar trees.

New stations for the trolleys were constructed at 22nd, 30th, 33rd ( between Market and Ludlow ), 36th ( at Sansom ), and 37th ( at Spruce ) streets.

Over the course of 1968 to 1970 and with the assistance of the local redevelopment authorities, Penn acquired, cleared and redeveloped the 4 block area between 38th, 40th, Spruce, and Walnut streets.

It is closely related to Black Spruce, and hybrids between the two are frequent where their ranges meet.

When Spruce started selling SpruceUp, a watered-down consumer incarnation of their DVD Maestro far below the price of Sonic's DVDit, and very similar to Sonic's MyDVD, there was obvious competition between Sonic and Spruce.

Originally, State Road 589 was concurrent with State Road 60 between Exit 2A and Exit 1, then extended to West Spruce Street and Boy Scout Boulevard.

Overtime is a common theme as the Royal Bank Cup, the longest game in RBC Cup history started on May 12, 2007 at Royal Bank Cup 2007 between the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League and the host Prince George Spruce Kings of the British Columbia Hockey League.

The existing concrete surfaces have since been rehabilitated, though there is a 1 mile ( or less ) exception between Spruce and Cypress Streets.

Camp Grady Spruce is directly across from the most well known geological feature of the lake called " Hell's Gate ", a channel which cuts between an island and a row of cliffs.

These include the Blue Spruce ( grades K-2 ) Silver Birch Express ( grades 3 – 4 ), Silver Birch ( grades 5 – 6 ) Red Maple ( grades 7 – 8 ) and White Pine ( High School ) in Ontario.

Spruce Knob, located in Pendleton County, is the highest point in the state and in the Alleghenies, its elevation being 4, 863 feet.

On August 4, 2007, the downtown area of Spruce Pine was threatened when an arsonist set fire to several buildings downtown.

Cape May Warblers nest in dense foliage near the trunk of a conifer, commonly a Black Spruce, and lay 4 – 9 eggs in a cup nest.

The highest point in the Allegheny Mountains is Spruce Knob ( 4, 863 ft / 1, 482 m ), on Spruce Mountain in West Virginia.

Within the Forest are most of the highest mountain peaks in the state, including the highest, Spruce Knob ( 4, 863 ft ), also the highest point in the Alleghenies.

* Bald Knob is one of only four mountain summits in West Virginia that rise above 4, 800 feet, the other three being Spruce Knob, Thorny Flat, and an unnamed summit near Snowshoe, WV.