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April 18, 2014

Mary Ellen Hammond pauses on a hike in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness, which is made up of about 17,000 acres in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Guest Column, Mary Ellen Hammond: True Adventure Lies 15 Minutes Beyond The Parking Lot

Mary Ellen Hammond is the publisher of outdoor adventure guidebooks at Milestone Press in Almond, N.C. Milestone’s new hiking app, “Great Hikes of the Southern Appalachians,” is available for iphone and android.
Each cabin has a covered porch that extends the living space into the outdoors.

Cabin in the Woods: The Farm Cabins and Cottages

Eight miles out of Asheville, families and couples find a dreamy retreat where the host couple “went overboard on the sheets.”
The build-your-own brunch buffet offers up a range of choices.

The Buffet Classic: Peaks of Otter

A blue ridge parkway signature tradition was interrupted for a time but the Sunday and Friday night buffets are back.
Worth the wait: A passed-along rhizome produced just leaves for several years. Then this.

Mountain Garden: Irresistable Irises

Easy to grow, easy to keep and easy to look at, bearded irises have a long history of beauty.
Lost World llamas greet visitors with curiosity.

Exotic Blue Ridge: Private Zoos Adapt to the Mountains

Keeping animals native to other continents is a challenge in the southern mountains. Your ostriches can disappear under the snow; your female monkeys can throw poop, and nearly every creature is threatened by a native one, either large or tiny.

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Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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