Connect With Us
Facebook-f X-twitter Youtube Instagram

Features

CURRENT Features

Top Water Spots in the Mountains

Who better to choose the best lakes, rivers, waterfalls, fishing spots and so much more than the readers of Blue Ridge Country magazine? Nobody! Time to get outside and get wet.

The Mountain Q&A – Sandra Marra: Protecting a 2,220-Mile, 100-Year Gem

Sandra Marra is president and CEO of the nonprofit Appalachian Trail Conservancy, overseeing the world’s longest hiking-only footpath—the nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine.

Hampshire Farm Crawl

With about 30 stops in all, the sequence of visits can fill a July weekend with fun and discovery.

Camping and Motherhood

Wherein Mom and Dad take the 8-month-old to the end of dirt roads and beside the rushing river for her first taste of the outdoors.

Another World: Loughran Cabe Goes Gloriously Underwater

This young photographer uses river snorkeling to raise awareness around Blue Ridge waterways.

Current Issue

Table Rock Lake tops the voting for South Carolina.

Top Water Spots in the Mountains

Who better to choose the best lakes, rivers, waterfalls, fishing spots and so much more than the readers of Blue Ridge Country magazine? Nobody! Time to get outside and get wet.
9a0fe60a-3f99-11ef-8ed9-12163087a831-SCB_6549

The Mountain Q&A – Sandra Marra: Protecting a 2,220-Mile, 100-Year Gem

Sandra Marra is president and CEO of the nonprofit Appalachian Trail Conservancy, overseeing the world’s longest hiking-only footpath—the nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine.
A goat looking for either a snack or a head rub pokes its head through the gate at Dollinger Farm.

Hampshire Farm Crawl

With about 30 stops in all, the sequence of visits can fill a July weekend with fun and discovery.
Mother and daughter share a moment far above the New River Gorge.

Camping and Motherhood

Wherein Mom and Dad take the 8-month-old to the end of dirt roads and beside the rushing river for her first taste of the outdoors.
Bluehead Chub. Directly below a footbridge on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, a male bluehead chub (Nocomis leptocephalus) is in the process of building a nest mound, a giant pile of thousands of pebbles in which a female chub will lay her eggs. Each spring, male chub spend days on end collecting stones with their mouths and carefully piling them together, a behavior which is fascinating to watch. Numerous other species have also evolved to spawn in the chub’s mound, and will swarm in the hundreds over the mounds.

Another World: Loughran Cabe Goes Gloriously Underwater

This young photographer uses river snorkeling to raise awareness around Blue Ridge waterways.
VIEW MORE

Departments

Knoxville Asian Festival, August 29-30,  Knoxville, Tennessee. Photo courtesy of Asian Culture Center of TN
Events

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.
Events

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