Area Guide
Nearby Towns Biographies
Buleadean
Your nearest Gas station and Hardware store. Also a Dollar General!
Red Hill
Your nearest ATM, bodega/country grocery store. Also has a gas station.
Loafers Glory
Your nearest restaurant, Bonnie & Clydes (no alcohol). Also home to the Loafer’s Glory River Adventures
Bakersville
Your nearest town. Great Barbecue also a great local agriculture food market full of mountain specialties. A great little river side park too
Spruce Pine
Your nearest ABC Store, McDonalds, and Breweries. Note that Mitchell and Yancey Counties are dry so the places above won’t serve alcohol. This is the best place to access the Blue Ridge Parkway. Lots of events at the Orchard
Burnsville
Your nearest full blown grocery store (ingles) and Hospital. Great little town square and breweries.
Johnson City
Your nearest big box stores
Asheville
Well… It’s Asheville
Unique Recreation by the Season
Winter
Snowboarding, Skiing, Cross Country Skiing… Sledding
Spring / Fall
Hiking, Waterfalls. Horseback riding in a Cove Forest or a Mountain Top. Foraging & Hunting. Apple Picking
Summer
Go swimming! White Water Rafting or River Tubing. Trout Fishing. Zipline Touring. Mountain Biking (Ski resorts)
Motor Cycle Driving Route
Best Hikes and Nature Areas
Roan Mountain via Carvers Gap (45 Minutes)
Unaka Mountain & Beauty Spot (45 Minutes)
Nolichuky Gorge (45 Minutes)
Linville Gorge (75 Minutes)
Grandfather Mountain (100 Minutes)
Mount Mitchell (100 Minutes)
Recreation Map
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To-do Guides
Sports and Recreation
Appalachian / WNC Culture
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Local Newspapers
Nature & Plants
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Apps to enhance your stay
Alltrails - Hiking maps
Picture This - Plant Identification
Peak Visor - Id Mountains
A part of the great Boreal forest, NC's Spruce Fir Forests can be found on Roan Mountain, Unaka Mountain, and Mount Mitchell
Roan Mountain is home to the worlds largest natural Rhodoendron Garden which is breathtaking and also handicap accessible
Roan Mountain is the last mountain to reach over 6,000 feet on the appalachain trail util New Hampshire
Mount Mitchell (Due south from the house)
Hawksbill Mountain is by far the best overlook of the Linville Gorge possible
Grandfather Mountain is a highly trafficked but extremely rugged mountain about 2 hours away
Beauty Spot (unaka mountain) is a great place to watch the sunset
Linville Falls
Bare Witness to Ecological Collapse
Brandy Gap sheds water (west) to pigeon roost creek. Alas, the passenger pigeons have not roosted there for over 100 years. This subrange of the blue ridge is named the unaka mountains, unaka being the cherokee word for white, a reference to the american chestnut blossoms that occupied more than 25% of the canopy. Killed by blight in the 1930s, taking with it the livelihood of the Appalachian people. Unicoi TN, whose name is derived from the same cherokee word, has a bison for a town mascot. They have not roamed these hills and prairies for 200 years. The Cougar, despite every local having a story of seeing these majestic creatures, they have not been officially recorded in these hills since the 1940s. Even in the near past, the American Mastadon, Giant Sloth, and American Lions roamed these hills a few thousand years ago. Each time a species goes extinct, a ripple is cast through the ecosystem.