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When a Place Chooses You: Making Black Mountain, North Carolina, Home

How a small town named after the East’s tallest mountains outsmarted a couple on the search for a larger community.

Peak Passion: The Magic and Lure of the Black Mountains

Trail association co-founder Jake Blood can’t get enough of the 6,000-footers in western North Carolina.

April 2024 Festival & Event Guide

Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.

Faces of Green: Protecting the Mountain Region

As Earth Day approaches on April 22, we salute people dedicating their lives to the cause year-round.

Old-Fashioned Maple Syrup

West Virginian Bob Sheets has stuck with the old ways—well, the 20th-century ways—of creating maple sweetness.

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State Street is the main street of Black Mountain.

When a Place Chooses You: Making Black Mountain, North Carolina, Home

How a small town named after the East’s tallest mountains outsmarted a couple on the search for a larger community.
Jake Blood: “In the entire eastern United States, there are under 50 peaks over 6,000 feet and we’ve got 16 of them here in that 15-mile ridgeline.”

Peak Passion: The Magic and Lure of the Black Mountains

Trail association co-founder Jake Blood can’t get enough of the 6,000-footers in western North Carolina.
Artists showcase their creativity on April 6 at the Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk.

April 2024 Festival & Event Guide

Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.
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Faces of Green: Protecting the Mountain Region

As Earth Day approaches on April 22, we salute people dedicating their lives to the cause year-round.
Sheets gathering sugar maple sap from a neighbor’s farm.

Old-Fashioned Maple Syrup

West Virginian Bob Sheets has stuck with the old ways—well, the 20th-century ways—of creating maple sweetness.
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At Coopers Rock State Forest, new Stargazer cabins invite guests to look up through skylights and telescopes.
Country Roads

Even Closer to Almost Heaven

New Stargazer cabins at Coopers Rock State Forest offer a skyward escape in the mountains of West Virginia.

June 29, 2026
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Country Roads

A Mountain Tradition Turns 90 

Visitors flock to Galax, Virginia, each summer for the Old Fiddlers’ Convention, a days-long celebration of Appalachian music.

June 29, 2026
Synchronous Fireflies
Creature Feature

The Light Fantastic

Fireflies are struggling with the effects of artificial light.

June 29, 2026

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