We spent a week in southwestern North
Carolina on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Home base was a small resort town called Lake Lure,
but other than a round of golf at the local course, most of the trip was spent
investigating nearby areas of the Appalachia.
Lake Lure,
NC in the late afternoon
BJ on the Blue Ridge Mts
Top on our list of things to explore was the Blue Ridge Parkway.
On a previous visited to the area we traveled the Southern-most portion between
Cherokee and Asheville, so this trip we explored another hundred miles north of
there on the Parkway between Asheville and Boone North Carolina.
CC on mile high Grandfather
Mountain
While there was still plenty of fall foliage to see at
the lower elevations, a storm the week before had stripped the upper ridges of
most deciduous vegetation. The good news is that it cleared away the foliage so
that one could see all the way to Charlotte NC some 90 miles to the South
Did you know that the Blue Ridge National Parkway gets more
visitors annually than Yosemite, Yellowstone
and Sequoia all put together? With good cause, in my opinion. The scenery is
absolutely magnificent.
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