Sort of a misnomer, as these ponies, although wild, are actually practically tame. They'll come up to you and nuzzle you for food (under the watchful eye of mom, who occasionally begins to snort). Near Massie Gap in Grayson Highlands State Park.

The 4,935-acre Grayson Highlands State Park showcases the natural beauty of waterfalls, spruce-fir forests, igneous rock outcroppings, native trout streams, rugged mountains, and high alpine meadows with panoramic vistas of valleys below. A community of hardy wildflowers, shrubs, insects, birds, amphibians, and mammals that can withstand the harsh conditions of the open highlands have adapted to life in the alpine meadows.At one time, every fourth tree in the mountains was a chestnut, but blight killed all the massive chestnut trees in the early 1900s.

It took only 12 years for the logging companies to clear the highest elevations of magnificent virgin red spruce, hemlock, and Fraser fir. At Massie Gap [Fig. 33(7)] in Grayson Highlands State Park, 1 acre of giant red spruce trees produced an impressive yield of 100,000 board feet of lumber—enough to build 30 average-size houses.