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Blue Ridge Country Coverage Area

Blue Ridge Country magazine covers the following geographic areas, divided by state and county:

Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia,


ALABAMA

  • DeKalb
  • Jackson
  • eastern edge of Madison

GEORGIA

  • Banks
  • Catoosa
  • Dade
  • Fannin
  • Franklin
  • Gilmer
  • Gordon
  • Habersham
  • Hall
  • Hart
  • Lumpkin
  • Murray
  • Rabun
  • Stephens
  • Towns
  • Union
  • Walker
  • White
  • Whitfield

KENTUCKY

  • Bell
  • Clay
  • Floyd
  • Harlan
  • Knott
  • Knox
  • Leslie
  • Letcher
  • southeastern half of Martin
  • McCreary
  • Perry
  • Pike
  • Whitley
  • and we occasionally reach into...
  • western part of Breathitt
  • eastern part of Estill
  • Lee
  • Owlsley
  • eastern part of Powell
  • Wolfe
  • (mostly a loop up to Red River Gorge and Natural Bridge SRP)

NORTH CAROLINA

  • Alleghany
  • Ashe
  • Avery
  • Buncombe
  • Burke
  • Caldwell (western)
  • Cherokee
  • Clay
  • Graham
  • Haywood
  • Henderson
  • Jackson
  • Macon
  • Madison
  • McDowell
  • Mitchell
  • Polk
  • Rutherford
  • Surry
  • Swain
  • Transylvania
  • Watauga
  • Wilkes
  • Yadkin (Yadkinville and west)
  • Yancey

SOUTH CAROLINA

  • northwest corner of Cherokee
  • Greenville
  • Oconee
  • Pickens
  • Spartanburg the county north of Spartanburg the town

MARYLAND

  • Allegany
  • Cumberland
  • western half of Frederick
  • Garrett

TENNESSEE

  • on the map: a diagonal line that connects the western edges of Chattanooga, Knoxville and Kingsport, occasionally reaching a little west of that (e.g. Oak Ridge)
  • Blount
  • Bradley
  • Greene
  • Jefferson
  • eastern half of Knox
  • Loudon
  • McMinn
  • Monroe
  • Polk
  • Sevier
  • Sullivan
  • sometimes reach into Claiborne and Hancock counties

VIRGINIA

  • Albemarle
  • Alleghany
  • Amherst
  • Augusta
  • Bath
  • Bedford
  • Bland
  • Botetourt
  • Buchanan
  • Carroll
  • Clarke
  • Craig
  • Culpeper (stretch)
  • Dickenson
  • western half of Fauquier
  • Floyd
  • Franklin
  • Frederick
  • Giles
  • Grayson
  • Greene
  • Highland
  • Lee
  • western half of Loudoun
  • Madison (west of U.S. 29)
  • Montgomery
  • Nelson
  • Page
  • Patrick
  • Pulaski
  • Rappahannock
  • Roanoke
  • Rockbridge
  • Rockingham
  • Russell
  • Scott
  • Shenandoah
  • Smyth
  • Tazewell
  • Warren
  • Washington
  • Wise
  • Wythe

WEST VIRGINIA

  • all of West Virginia EXCEPT the following counties:
  • Brooke
  • western corner of Cabell
  • Hancock
  • Jackson
  • Marshall
  • Mason
  • Ohio
  • Pleasants
  • Ritchie
  • Tyler
  • western corner of Cabell
  • Wetzel
  • Wirt
  • Wood
  • the following WV counties are in the grey area:
  • Cabell
  • Calhoun
  • Doddridge
  • Gilmer
  • western part of Harrison
  • western part of Kanawha
  • northern half of Lincoln
  • Marion
  • Monogalia
  • Putnam
  • Roane
 

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