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2014

Looking Glass Falls is right beside U.S. 276, about 5 miles north of Brevard in Pisgah National Forest.

Photo Essay: Wondrous Waterfalls of Western North Carolina

"Waterfall Guy" Kevin Adams, author of "North Carolina Waterfalls," has also become a master night photographer and, with Bill Lea, is founder of WNC Foto Fest, held in September near Asheville.
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Asheville: It’s Weird, It’s Beautiful, It’s Home!

Our contributing editor grew up shopping at department stores and eating at the Woolworth’s lunch counter. My my, how (delightfully) things have changed.
The Second Bud: Deserting the City for a Farm Winery,”

Book Review: “The Second Bud: Deserting the City for a Farm Winery,”

When a late frost kills that first, large grapevine bud in the spring, the second bud may in part redeem that season’s growth.
Blue Ridge Parkway

Country Roads: The Crack, the Counters, the Leaves No One Saw and the Golden Gate Bridge

It became official just about the time this magazine went to press: The Blue Ridge Parkway, long touted as the most-visited unit in the National Park system, lost its crown in 2013 – to San Francisco’s Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Taller than the Giza Pyramid, Green Bank Telescope serves as a landmark for Rumpus rides, and a focus for the science side of the weekend of races, rides, skill-building, music, local brews and starry science.

Country Roads: Science, Scenery and Cycling

“Otherworldly” is how cyclists describe the scenery at West Virginia’s Space Race Rumpus cycling festival June 13-16.
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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

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

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