The North Carolina Mountains Features

The North Carolina Mountains Features

• Literary Mountain Lions
  

  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

• 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

• Exotic Aliens
  

  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

• Carolina Arts & 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

• Mountain Brews
  

  Microbreweries have replaced moonshine stills in the North Carolina mountains. At last count, there were at least seven microbreweries in the... read more

• Arts & Crafts Movement
  

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