2020

First light paints the mountains near a wind-shaped oak on Max Patch in North Carolina.

Photo Essay: Loving on the Cold

Hey, let’s not short the cold season, hard as it may be to step outside into it. Our contributing photographers certainly brave the elements, and are back with the beautiful proof.
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A Generous Serving of Snow

Lucy Van Pelt: I never eat December snow[flakes]. I always wait ‘til January. Linus Van Pelt: They sure look ripe to me. —Charles Schultz
Allan Benton’s prosciutto tops a salad of roasted beets and lightly fried cakes of goat cheese at Rain.

Flavors: Rain Serves a Flood of Flavor

The food at this Abingdon, Virginia, eatery is as beautiful as the art on the walls of the water-themed dining room.
The mysterious carving is on National Park Service land near the New River Gorge.

‘Mona Lisa of the Mountains?’ The Stone Face of the New River Gorge

The enigmatic face was likely carved into soapstone in the 1950s by a coal miner.

Departments

Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

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

CALENDAR OF EVENTS