Newfound Gap Road through the #GSMNP
In 1940, when President Theodore Roosevelt spoke and dedicated the monument to the Rockefellers, that 5 million was the equivalent of over 90 million dollars today.
Waynesville; Welcome to Frog Level
It is said that the last shot of the Civil War east of the Mississippi River was fired in Waynesville, North Carolina in May of 1865. You can visit the memorial on Sulphur Springs Road.
Lake Junaluska
Lake Junaluska is a census-designated territory, which occurs when a thriving community extends past the legal and/or geographical borders of an incorporated city.
Haywood County Hops; a Brew Tour
Boojum was a mystical 9 feet tall creature covered in grey hair. Half mountain man and half Sasquatch-like beast, he liked to drink his home brew, hang out in caves with his woman, and roam around collecting sparkly things which he was known to stash all across the Smokies.
Chimney Rock Village
I’ve heard stories about this place long before I visited. One friend described it as a rowdier Hooters with karaoke and camping
King of the Road; a Jaunt Along North Carolina’s Charlotte Highway
We knew, hoped even, that there had to be at least one weird thing in Bat Cave, but how were we supposed to explain THAT?
The Flowering Bridge; Lake Lure’s Gateway to Beauty
It took over two years from the birth of Miller’s idea to the start of its construction, but with a pooled $20,000 and seven months of hard voluntary labour the Friends finally had their garden.
