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The Top 61 Happiest Mountain Towns in the Blue Ridge
Our quest to have our readers select the happiest towns in the mountains began with a set of criteria applied
April 2, 2026
bird watching
Freight trains snake through Radford, VA, at least a dozen times every day. But few people paid attention to the trains until town tourism director Deb Cooney suggested building a train (and bird) viewing platform.
Our contributing photographers employed a combination of stealth, care and great lenses to be able to treat us to this array of mountain wildlife upon the land.
Why have woodpeckers fared better than many other birds in the Blue Ridge region?
Early holiday gifts are flying overhead as the Sandhill Cranes return to (and through) the Blue Ridge from points north!
The acrobatic sunshine-yellow males and their olive-yellow female mates that we’ve named American Goldfinches are seasonally some of the last birds to nest in the Blue Ridge.
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