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Home Again: The Chimney Rock Postcard

Things can find their proper place, even if it takes 60 years.

2019 Mountain Festivals Guide

Our annual festival guide points the way to great gatherings from the Virginias and the Carolinas to Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Find food, beer and wine plus rubber ducky races, apples, peaches, barbecue, bluegrass – and even Santa Claus.

Photo Essay: Wildlife & Wildflowers

It’s the pretty season in the Southern Appalachians.

Keeping Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley Well-Trailed

Thomas Jenkins has been building trails around Harrisonburg, Virginia for 25 years. His efforts have helped transform the city into a mecca of hiking and biking, and opened up long-neglected national forest trails.

New North Carolina Fresco: Christopher Holt Immortalizes Faith

An emerging fresco artist caps years of study and preparation as he completes his first major commission, at a downtown Asheville mission serving the homeless.

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Gloria Edwards was given the postcard by her mother, who found it going through old love letters from her late husband.

Home Again: The Chimney Rock Postcard

Things can find their proper place, even if it takes 60 years.
Sunset over a mountain range festival guide cover | Blue Ridge Country

2019 Mountain Festivals Guide

Our annual festival guide points the way to great gatherings from the Virginias and the Carolinas to Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Find food, beer and wine plus rubber ducky races, apples, peaches, barbecue, bluegrass – and even Santa Claus.
A hummingbird feeds on the sweet nectar of some east Tennessee phlox up Clarks Creek, near Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Photo Essay: Wildlife & Wildflowers

It’s the pretty season in the Southern Appalachians.
Thomas Jenkins (lovin’ on the tree) has been a part of building or protecting some 200 miles of trail.

Keeping Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley Well-Trailed

Thomas Jenkins has been building trails around Harrisonburg, Virginia for 25 years. His efforts have helped transform the city into a mecca of hiking and biking, and opened up long-neglected national forest trails.
Main Image: Christopher Holt holds a sketch that will contribute to the fresco. Inset: Christopher Holt’s deft hand at work.

New North Carolina Fresco: Christopher Holt Immortalizes Faith

An emerging fresco artist caps years of study and preparation as he completes his first major commission, at a downtown Asheville mission serving the homeless.
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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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