Pinnacle Mountain maintains this public web site to provide a wide range of information to its residents. From the mountain’s Homeowner Provisions, By-Laws and Covenants, to Meeting Minutes from all Board Meetings, to guidance on fire pit and architectural reviews, it can all be found right here. There’s also a page for recommendations for service providers that is updated regularly as residents identify good providers for our mountain wilderness homes.
Board Members of the Pinnacle Mountain Property Owner’s Association (PMPOA) and our property owners welcome you to the mountain! Some of your neighbors are full time or part time residents, while others simply maintain property. You’re sure to meet several of your fellow owners at the Annual Board Meeting or around the mountain. We look forward to meeting you!
The PMPOA Board is comprised of five volunteer property owners. Service terms are for one year and officers are elected at the Annual Meeting in July. It’s likely a Board officer will contact you once you move in, but if you haven’t heard from someone within a week, please send an email to the POA account pinnaclemountainpoa@gmail.com. We’ll want to make sure that we have your current contact information so mailings and notifications reach you. Please remember to also let the Board know if your contact information changes.
The Board is also responsible for collecting the annual dues and administering the annual budget expenditures, maintaining the roadways, overseeing new and add-on buildings, answering questions regarding the Homeowner Provisions, By-Laws and Covenants, and helping property owners navigate area services and service providers. If you have any questions at all, the Board is a good place to start, either advising ourselves or being able to refer you to others that can.
There are five members on the Board: President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and Member-at-Large. You can reach all members through the pinnaclemountainpoa@gmail.com address.
There are two options for receiving your mail. The first is to open a PO Box at the USPS limited-service satellite office at 3733 US 221 Hwy N, Union Mills at the entrance to Nannytown Road. The second is to contact the Board and request a mailbox be installed on the mailbox stands at the foot of the mountain. There is a small fee to locate your box and you’ll also need to purchase the recommended size mailbox and street address lettering. There is a full-service USPS office in downtown Rutherfordton at 130 E Court St, Rutherfordton.
UPS and Fed Ex can not deliver to your home directly. If you have a stand mailbox, they will leave your package either on top of the boxes or directly underneath. Although we don’t have a problem with theft as our mailboxes are located a distance from the main road, it’s recommended that you retrieve your packages at your earliest opportunity. Those without a mailbox can retrieve their packages at the satellite post office.
There are a handful of Fed Ex Onsite locations and UPS locations in and around Marion, Rutherfordton, Spindale and Forest City.
As the mountain is a private community with unpaved terrain, traditional trash pick-up services are not available. Residents transport their materials to local facilities. The full-service Rutherford County Landfill is located at 656 Laurel Hill Drive in Rutherfordton and accepts a wide variety of trash, recycling, bulk, and certain hazardous waste materials.
Most residents find the Gilkey Convenience Center at 2489 Hwy 221 N Rutherfordton a great, closer alternative for both trash and recycling services. It is open Monday through Saturday (except holidays) until 7 p.m.
It’s recommended that you keep your trash and recycling containers inside your home, garage, or shed until you can transport to the Center. Wildlife in the area will be attracted to trash left outside your home.
Information on the full-service and all convenience center offerings, pricing on certain articles, and hours is available on the web site: rutherfordcountync.gov/departments/solid_waste/index.php
The Pinnacle Mountain community is actually comprised of two neighborhoods, referred to as Pinnacle Mountain Property Owners Association (PMPOA) and Pinnacle Ridge South Property Owners Association (PRSPOA). Additionally, there are other properties that are simply private lands not incorporated in either association. You’ve purchased a property in the PMPOA that is accessible only through one security gate, which is monitored 24/7 by a cameras.
A Gate Committee oversees the maintenance of this area and is responsible for setting up your account at the gate’s callbox. Property owners can activate the gate by manually entering # and then their account number code on the callbox. Owners can also opt for in-car transmitters available for a fee, that when pressed, will open the gate.
The callbox will also assist with allowing access to your guests and service providers. You’ll first provide the Gate Committee with a phone number which they will upload to the call box. Your guests and service providers will select your name on the callbox, and a call will go through to your cell. Press 9 and the gate will open remotely, or hang up to deny entry. You will have 1 minute to talk to the guest on the other end before the line will automatically disconnect and the gate will remain closed. Most residents program the gate’s phone number – 828.286.9966 – into their phones so they recognize when a visitor call is being made. Note that residents personal phone numbers DO NOT appear on the call box display, only last name and first initial.
PROVIDING YOUR PERSONAL GATE CODE OR IN-CAR TRANSMITTER TO ANYONE ELSE IS PROHIBITED. These are for your use only and help keep our neighborhood secure. If you have a regular visitor to your property, such as a house cleaner, or a lawn or insect service, you can obtain a code specific to that individual from the Gate Committee. Some local professional service providers have a dedicated code already so inquire of them prior to requesting a code.
Assistance with establishing your gate access can be obtained by emailing pinnaclemountainpoa@gmail.com.
As this is a private community, the annual dues collected from members are used to maintain the roadways. PMPOA has a Road Commissioner, a property owner with substantial experience in such maintenance. Roadways and drainage channels are attended to throughout the year, with typically two significant maintenance updates, interspersed with shorter trouble-shooting efforts.
Roadways will always be maintained with gravel and a base substrate. None of them are paved. Irresponsible driving will impose wear and tear on the roads that will make driving them over time less than pleasant. Weather and improper vehicles are the greatest detriments to the quality of the roads and owners are strongly urged to follow a few common- sense rules for helping to keep the road quality acceptable.
1. Adhere to the speed limits of 15mph on the PRSPOA roadways and 20 mph on the PMPOA roadways. Going faster is not prudent as many of the curves are blind, which significantly impedes your vision of and ability to react to animals, obstacles, other vehicles, and most importantly, people walking the roadway with animals and children. Trying to stop if driving at higher speeds greatly increases your risk of an accident or going off the road.
2. Although two-wheel drive vehicles are not prohibited, they are strongly discouraged as they’re generally incapable of handling the switchbacks and sharp inclines without causing deep ruts from spinning tires. Four-wheel and all- wheel drive vehicles are recommended for the safety of residents and the preservation of our roadways.
3. Please show consideration to your neighbors when driving past homes that are closer to the roadway and always be on the lookout for children and pets. During long periods of no rain, the roadways get dusty so slowing down helps with reducing dust. Your neighbors will appreciate you for it.
4. Roadways can be narrow and at some locations are only wide enough for a single car. If you encounter another car in these areas, it may be necessary for one driver to back up until it reaches a safe place to pull to the side and allow the other vehicle to safely pass.
Yes, that parking area is available to both the PMPOA and PRSPOA but should only be used by residents and visitors for short periods of time (typically several hours, up to a couple of days). It can’t be used for personal long term or storage parking. There are no security officers on the mountain, so parking is at your own risk. It’s best to lock valuables in your trunk or take them with you. If you have visitors for the holiday and they don’t have 4-wheel or all-wheel drive vehicles, they are allowed to park for a longer period of time in the lot, but we recommend that you email pinnaclemountainpoa@gmail.com in advance notifying the make, color, license plate number and the duration of the stay. This will ensure that the car is not mistaken for being abandoned.
Yes, the community obtains its water from underground water systems that feed wells accessed via pump houses. There are a number of wells and pump houses throughout the community. The pump houses are the small, single-door enclosures that you’ll commonly see next to the roadways. Some are shared wells while a few owners have their own private wells. Please note that while every home has water access of some sort, not every lot is part of a shared well. This will depend on whether the original owner opted into a shared well agreement, check your Deed for information.
For shared wells, the original developers specified the number of homes that could be assigned to each pump house. Your Deed will specify the location of the well that you will access and if it’s shared or private. Your previous owner or builder will tell you which pump house is allocated to your property, as the closest pump house may not actually be yours.
While the water is free, the pumps do require electricity and members pay toward the cost equally or as agreed to by your fellow pump house members. Typically, one member is elected to pay the REMC electric bill and is in charge of collecting the funds from all other members on a pre-determined basis. Members are also responsible for the maintenance of the pump and the pump house (including painting, replacement materials, breakers, control boxes, and maintenance of the grounds). Please also note that the wells and pump houses are private property owned by the respective residence, and PMPOA does not retain any information or manage any of the wells on the mountain.
Although well water is typically hard, and has a higher pH, it is refreshingly crisp and clear. Existing residences may have a whole house filtering system that removes harmful metals and sediment, and potentially bacteriological components. Other residents have additionally installed a water softening system in their homes as well.
Most member groups elect to test their water once a year. You can buy a water testing kit at the local home improvement store, contact a local plumbing company to test for you, or provide a water sample to the Foothills Health District at: http://www.foothillshd.org/environmental/environmental-health-forms/.
The annual BestPlaces Comfort Index for the Union Mills (zip 28167) area is 7.4 (10=best), which means it is more comfortable than most places in North Carolina.
Summer High: the July high is around 89 degrees
Winter Low: the January low is 26
Rain: averages 51 inches of rain a year
Snow: averages 3 inches of snow a year
Average Monthly High and Low (°F)
January: 51°/ 26°
February: 55°/ 29°
March: 63°/ 35°
April: 72°/ 43°
May: 79°/ 52°
June: 86°/ 61°
July: 89°/ 65°
August: 87°/ 64°
September: 81°/ 57°
October: 72°/ 44°
November: 63°/ 35°
December: 53°/ 28°
Depending upon where you live on the mountain, you may also experience intense fog or mist on some occasions (that frequently dissipates once you get closer to the bottom of the mountain). Winds can also be fairly strong. On the other hand, the intense blue of sun-filled days along with a light, cooling breeze are more the norm, and a refreshing change from the high humidity typically experienced every day in nearby cities.
As you may imagine from living on a mountain, there is a wide variety of wildlife. Sightings of turkeys, raccoons, coyotes, bears, and bobcats are not uncommon although they tend to shy away from noise and humankind. Eagles, hawks, and other raptor species are normally sighted on a daily basis, lazily circling over the gaps. Caution is urged when moving brush, sticking your hands in places you can’t clearly see, or foraging through the woods since undesired snakes such as copperheads and rattlers are present, as well as the very beneficial black snakes and other desired snake species. Best to just retreat from all.
Pinnacle Mountain is no exception to the warnings given throughout North Carolina for the existence of chiggers and ticks. If you have a dog or cat that will frequently be outside, their safety warrants maintenance flea, tick, and heartworm control. Outside pets should also be vaccinated for rabies and spayed or neutered to reduce roaming habits and unwanted litters.
Pinnacle Mountain Welcome Packet (pdf)
DownloadYes, living on the mountain can be a challenge when the weather picks up or a loaf of bread is more than a short hop (remember you chose to live in a wilderness community!!), but the benefits of the sounds of nature, refreshing breezes, intensely blue skies, and the sense of peace available after a long day will outweigh those concerns. Welcome again and let us know how we can be of service; visit the Contact Us page below if you have more question!
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