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Annual Travel Guide: Welcome Mats 2025

These 21 mountain destinations are ready and waiting for travelers to enjoy their inviting offerings.

Curios: Celebrating, ’20s Style

For an Asheville native with both six-degree and fandom ties to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, a night of stepping into the flair and feel of 100 years ago provided a fanciful taste of their life and times.

Sharing the Smokies

Interpretive park ranger Michael Smith loves chatting up the mountains he calls home.

Intimacy with the Land: A Small Bouquet to Helene Victims

May we all come to reach Elizabeth Hunter's level of appreciation of where we live, whether climbing up from the rubble or lucky enough to have escaped that terrible challenge.

Family Strong on the AT

In the face of personal, family and business challenges, Nikki Bettis gathered her 13 children, convinced them to walk the Maine-to-Georgia Appalachian Trail and then went out and did it.

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Chattanooga, Tennessee, is embraced by the flow of the Tennessee River. Lookout Mountain looms on the horizon.

Annual Travel Guide: Welcome Mats 2025

These 21 mountain destinations are ready and waiting for travelers to enjoy their inviting offerings.
Flappers sipped cocktails on the patio.

Curios: Celebrating, ’20s Style

For an Asheville native with both six-degree and fandom ties to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, a night of stepping into the flair and feel of 100 years ago provided a fanciful taste of their life and times.
Michael Smith: “It’s like being an elementary school teacher. I know a little bit about a lot of things in the park, but I don’t dive deep into any of those.”

Sharing the Smokies

Interpretive park ranger Michael Smith loves chatting up the mountains he calls home.
Elizabeth Hunter’s love for and dedication to the land was a hallmark of her life.

Intimacy with the Land: A Small Bouquet to Helene Victims

May we all come to reach Elizabeth Hunter's level of appreciation of where we live, whether climbing up from the rubble or lucky enough to have escaped that terrible challenge.
“Reaching the quarter-way sign in southwest Virginia was a huge milestone,” says Nikki Bettis (left). “We felt like we’d finally found our groove.”

Family Strong on the AT

In the face of personal, family and business challenges, Nikki Bettis gathered her 13 children, convinced them to walk the Maine-to-Georgia Appalachian Trail and then went out and did it.
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Knoxville Asian Festival, August 29-30,  Knoxville, Tennessee. Photo courtesy of Asian Culture Center of TN
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Fall 2026 Festivals & Events Guide

From the Virginias and the Carolinas to Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, our annual compendium is the perfect travel companion. Inside,

April 20, 2026
4th of July Parade & Festival, July 4, Blowing Rock, North Carolina.
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Summer 2026 Festivals & Events Guide

From the Virginias and the Carolinas to Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, our annual compendium is the perfect travel companion. Inside,

April 20, 2026

CALENDAR OF EVENTS