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Yes but what about that sprawling Metropolis, Mount Pilot?

There actually is a nearby town on which Mount Pilot was based, and its name is - wait for it - Pilot Mountain. It's probably about a fifteen minute drive south of Mt. Airey, and is named for an actual peak of the same name. Locals joke about the mountain's resemblance, when viewed from a distance, to a certain part of the female anatomy. Do an image search on it. And like it's fictional counterpart, its resemblence to a big city is very slight, to say the least. In fact I would venture to guess that today it is probably smaller and less developed than Mt. Airy, although things might have been different in Andy Griffith's youth.

We have mountains in Texas. Big beautiful mountains...And inactive volcanoes too.

A friend in Ashville took me on a tour of the Smokies, It was nice and fun, yet....It wasn’t much more than Eastern Oklahoma (Kiamichi’s).

Don’t get me wrong, I loved the ‘smoke’ of the Smokies, it was just a fog-like feature. (that area was a rain forest in the Nantahala’s) Very pretty with the waterfalls and all.

In West Texas is the Davis, the Chisos and Guadelupe. Guadelupe peak being the highest at 8k or so above sea level.

Not far off from Amarillo/Dumas is Raton. Drive through there in winter if its open and your ears will pop and your butt will clench.

As far as female anatomy, I have hiked the Tetons in Wyoming.