After living in this BEAUTIFUL place for over 2 years, I finally feel like I have enough of an idea of ~what’s good~ around here to give you a little visitor’s guide! This area’s beauty is endless, the hikes are incredible, the food is delicious, and I feel so lucky to call it home.
Our favorite hikes:
- Rough Ridge
- Roan Mountain
- Beacon Heights
- Linville Falls
- Glen Burney Falls
- Flat Top Lookout Tower
- Bass Lake Trail (great walk for kids!)
Our favorite local shopping:
- Mustard Seed Market (garden store and home decor)
- Mustard Seed Home Store
- Mast General Store Valle Crucis
- Brave Fox (children’s store)
- Common Good (home decor, clothing, art)
- Bee and Boxwood (home)
- High Country candle shop
- Footsloggers (outdoors)
- Speckled Trout Outfitters (outdoors and fishing)
- We also have LOTS of antique shops everywhere!!
Our favorite local restaurants:
- The Speckled Trout (American cuisine)
- Over Yonder (Southern)
- Proper (Southern)
- Bistro Roca (American)
- Cafe Violette (French)
- Mint Indian Cuisine
- The Cardinal (burgers)
- Lost Province (pizza)
- Dan’l Boone inn (Southern family style)
- Melanie’s (breakfast/brunch)
Fun activities:
- Grandfather Mountain (swinging bridge and there’s a small “zoo”)
- Tweetsie Railroad
- Apple Hill Alpaca Farm
- Farmer’s Markets (seasonal)
- Doc Rocks Gem Mining
- The Blowing Rock lookout
- Hawksnest Snow Tubing (seasonal)
- Christmas Tree Farms (seasonal)
- Apple Orchards (seasonal)
If you visit, please be respectful to the (very kind) locals and these mountains! It’s a truly special place.
