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July 2020

Flying high above a gorgeous sunset at Smith Mountain Lake.

MOUNTAIN BLUE: The Top 24 Lakes in the Blue Ridge Mountains

The votes are in, now it's time to celebrate the Best Mountain Lakes in the Blue Ridge, as selected by our readers.
Anna Ziegler

Guest Column: Trajectory

As humans learned to live with fewer trips to the store and the office, ... the earth took a deep breath.
Eagle Falls swimming hole, Kentucky.

MOUNTAIN BLUE: Our Readers’ Favorite Waters

Lakes and falls, rivers and swimming holes—we’ve got ‘em all. Plus lots more liquid-based fun.
Reintroduction biologist Meredith Harris

Science Outside: Fishing for Answers

Reintroduction biologist Meredith Harris works to save endangered species.
What Lake Moomaw offers today is, at least for one writer, “wildness on its own mountain terms.”

Far From the Madding Crowd

When Lake Moomaw opened in 1982 in Virginia’s Alleghany Highlands, 300,000 visitors were forecast to flock to its shores the next year. Today, Moomaw is a solitary, beautiful place with stories to share. If you’re willing to look closely and listen
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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

April 12, 2018

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