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High Country
Appalachian collections, scenic viewpoints and living mountain communities invite a slower visit.
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Find your place
High Country, a little closer.
Appalachian collections, scenic viewpoints and living mountain communities invite a slower visit. Use precise entrances and confirm current routes between towns.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
Three places to begin.
Choose a local stop, then find food and a place to stay.
No matching places in this collection. Try another town or show all places.
Your next good stop.
Find a business. Put yours on the map.
Browse published places around High Country. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real North Carolina photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Boone NC - King Street.jpg — Jeremy Mikkola from Boone, NC. CC BY 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- View at The Blowing Rock.jpg — Education Prof. CC0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Shawneehaw Creek in Banner Elk.jpg — Mark Clifton. CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
Independent visitor sources; inclusion is not a paid placement or an endorsement by the source.
County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, North Carolina FIPS 37, all 100 counties. Simplified for display. Town markers show approximate centers, not attraction entrances or driving routes. These six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings, not North Carolina’s official tourism regions. Featured places are starting points, not an exhaustive inventory.