This Saturday! Green Building and Solar Tour

Olympians come to Sugar Mountain for Ski Clinic

Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail

Doc Watson, David Holt & Riley Baugus to Perform “Hills of Home” at Appalachian’s Performing Arts Series

Special Event Line-Up At Sugar Mountain Resort For The 2008-2009 Winter Season

ASU biology professor is the official ''Fall Color Guy''

Booze Comes to Boone

Ski Patrollers Receive Highest National Awards

Peregrine Falcons Raising Chicks at Grandfather Mountain

 
High Country Back Roads

High Country Choose and Cut Festival

 Wine Trails Win the Hearts of Visitors to Northwestern NC
For over a century, North Carolina has been the home of vineyards, particularly in the eastern portion of the state where Scuppernong and Muscadine wines were first cultivated. Now, the northwestern portion of the state is the location of successful attempts to cultivate European and Californian types of grapevines, particularly in the Yadkin Valley.   READ MORE

 Boone Is Named One of Four North American Adventure Destinations

  In 2005, Boone was recognized by travel journalists as the ultimate outdoor adventure destination in the Southeast, even in North America.

Along with Durango, Colorado, Bend, Oregon and North Vancouver, British Columbia, Boone, North Carolina was selected as one of four multi-sport vacation destinations in North America, featured in an article in the May 2005 issue of Adventure Sports Magazine.   READ MORE