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Top Trending Blue Ridge Mountain Destinations 2019

Our readers pick the Top 35 Trending Mountain Destinations across 7 mountain states, and our editors pick 175 can't miss attractions and reasons to visit!

“Steward of Sunshine”

Who gets a title like that on her business card? River guide extraordinaire Julie Johnson, that’s who.

50 Strange Things in the Mountains

Let’s take a look at some of the stranger things our wonderful region is home to.

‘I Come from a Place’

Tennessee watercolorist captures the people and places along the Appalachian Trail.

Photo Essay: Fabulous Falls

Ready to cool off for summer even if you can’t get outside right now? Our contributing photographers to the rescue! Dive into these cool mountain falls.

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Rock City’s Lovers Leap is one of five things not to miss in Walker County, Georgia.

Top Trending Blue Ridge Mountain Destinations 2019

Our readers pick the Top 35 Trending Mountain Destinations across 7 mountain states, and our editors pick 175 can't miss attractions and reasons to visit!
Jules Johnson—the grinning guide at rear of raft—has been taking rafters through Class III and IV rapids on the Ocoee River for 20 years.

“Steward of Sunshine”

Who gets a title like that on her business card? River guide extraordinaire Julie Johnson, that’s who.
Beams of a sunrise over the Smokies fall upon some of the 900 miles of maintained trails in the national park.

50 Strange Things in the Mountains

Let’s take a look at some of the stranger things our wonderful region is home to.
Inset Image: Record-setting Appalachian Trail runner and author Jennifer Pharr Davis and Alan Shuptrine have collaborated to create the book "I Come From A Place" which contains 80 of his paintings. Main Image: “Away for the Summer.”

‘I Come from a Place’

Tennessee watercolorist captures the people and places along the Appalachian Trail.
This is the second of four waterfalls known as “Blue Hole Falls” in the Cherokee National Forest near Elizabethton, Tennessee. Only this one and the third are readily accessible.

Photo Essay: Fabulous Falls

Ready to cool off for summer even if you can’t get outside right now? Our contributing photographers to the rescue! Dive into these cool mountain falls.
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Vibrant Monarch butterfly clings to its translucent dew covered cocoon
Creature Feature

Monarch Mimickers

It’s easy to mistake other orange species for the king of fall butterflies.

August 26, 2026
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
©Duncan Seaman
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

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