The North Carolina Mountains Features

The North Carolina Mountains Features

• Top Reasons to Go to The North Carolina Mountains
  

  Biltmore Estate: The 250-room Biltmore House, modeled after the great Renaissance châteaus of the Loire Valley in France, is the largest... read more

• Day Trip: Blue Ridge Parkway
  

  Often called America's narrowest national park, the Blue Ridge Parkway's two-lane blacktop traverses some of the East's most dramatic scenery... read more

• Good Eats in Asheville
  

  Asheville's acclaimed diversity is reflected in its dynamic and ever-changing food scene.... read more

• Exotic Plant Threat
  

  The North Carolina Mountains have been victims of many alien predators. Hundreds of exotic, nonnative plants and some animals have been introduced... read more

• Biltmore Boasts
  

  The Biltmore Estate is North Carolina's leading tourist attraction and boasts many superlatives. Biltmore Estate:... read more

• Authors of the North Carolina Mountains
  

  They may not be able to go home again, but many famous writers have made their homes in the North Carolina Mountains. The one most closely associated... read more

• Asheville Slow Food Movement
  

  Asheville is in the fast lane for "slow food," also known as the local-food or farm-to-table movement. Organic farms abound around Asheville... read more

• Arts & Crafts Movement
  

  The Arts and Crafts Movement was an international movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that emphasized local and natural materials... read more

• River Arts District
  

  Asheville's River Arts District (www.riverartsdistrict.com) isn't SoHo—not yet, at least. This former industrial and warehouse section... read more

• Carolina Arts and Crafts
  

  A century ago, as young George Vanderbilt prepared to build a retreat in then-bucolic Asheville, he and an architect traveled the French countryside... read more

• Trip Tunes
  

  Bluegrass. Appalachian folk. Mountain music. Whatever you call them, the songs of the North Carolina Mountains make a great sound track for a... read more