With so many great things to see and do in the Blue Ridge Mountains it may be hard to squeeze in everything on your travel bucket list into one trip. Make sure you hit the highlights on some of our region’s best outdoor adventures, cultural offerings, and attractions. Plan your trip with these local travel and tourism resources.
Asheville Regional Airport (AVL), located in the mountains of Western North Carolina, serves an 11-County region and about 600,000 passengers a year. Since its opening in 1961, AVL has grown to offer non-stop service to eight hub cities on four major commercial airlines—Continental, Delta,…
Bear Tracks Travel Center, located in the mountains of Western North Carolina at Lake Toxaway, is the destination for all of your travel, shopping and adventure needs. For the traveler, we offer Food, Fuel, Tourist Information, ATM, Clean Restrooms, Maps, Movie Rentals, and Lottery. For the…
Blue Ridge Country is an international award-winning bimonthly regional magazine with a readership of 210,000, covering travel, history, food, festivals, outdoors and the environment in the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and…
The Blue Ridge Digest has been the most widely available travel publication in the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains for over 30 years! The digest provides the information mountain visitor need regarding stories on the region, an area calendar of events, as well as providing an area map. Over…
The Blue Ridge Parkway follows the Appalachian Mountain chain and provides seemingly endless views of many parallel ranges connected by cross ranges and scattered hills. From Shenandoah National Park, the Parkway follows the Blue Ridge Mountains, eastern rampart of the Appalachians, for 355 miles….
Four quaint towns are the center of life in the Carolina Foothills. Tryon, Columbus and Saluda, NC and Landrum, SC. Together, they comprise the First Peak of the Blue Ridge, with great shopping, dining and just-browsing-around options a-plenty. But each town has its unique appeal, its special…
We’re not just for couples! RomanticAsheville.com Travel Guide now covers 16 counties (90-mile radius of Asheville), so we feature plenty of places for all to explore. Find the best hotel…
Smoky Mountain Living celebrates the Southern Appalachians’ people, culture, history, music, art, crafts and special places in six issues each year. From the Blue Ridge Parkway’s scenic curves to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s wild backcountry, from the Cherokee to the Cohutta…
