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Elk Viewing in North Carolina’s Gorgeous Cataloochee Valley

Cataloochee Valley has become a prime spot for elk viewing since 2011, after an experimental program reintroduced elk to this part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The program was led by the National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and a few other partners. Twenty-five radio collared elk were brought in and released.…

October 16, 2022 in Appalachia, North Carolina.

Seven Wonders and More in Old Fort

From Bat Cave, North Carolina, get yourself a jug of apple cider from a roadside stand and sip it all along NC-9 North and Bat Cave Road. Follow it right into Old Fort.  Old Fort is a tiny town of less than 1,000 residents located halfway between Black Mountain and Marion, and halfway between Bat…

September 1, 2022 in Appalachia, Cherokee, North Carolina.

Traveling Light through the Mountain Town of Weaverville

Vance was widely praised for being ahead of his time by making huge strides in infrastructure development and socio-political reforms, but he continuously used his political power to fight against civil rights and the abolition of slavery, and his family still owned slaves so I’m not buying it. 

October 4, 2020 in Appalachia, North Carolina.

Ride the White Horse Through Dark City

As scandalous as the title of this blog might seem, it actually has nothing to do with cocaine or meth. Black Mountain, aka Dark City, took its name for its location in the Black Mountain range of the Appalachian Blue Ridge Mountains.

January 28, 2020 in Appalachia, North Carolina.

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.

September 3, 2019 in Appalachia, North Carolina.

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?

June 25, 2019 in Appalachia, North Carolina.

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