Olympians come to Sugar Mountain for Ski Clinic

Special Event Line-Up At Sugar Mountain Resort For The 2008-2009 Winter Season

Booze Comes to Boone

Ski Patrollers Receive Highest National Awards

Peregrine Falcons Raising Chicks at Grandfather Mountain

Hiking and Camping in Linville Gorge

Day Trips in the High Country

Boone Is Named One of Four North American Adventure Destinations

Continue Your Exercise Routine in Good Form at Local Fitness Outlets
 
High Country Back Roads

High Country Choose and Cut Festival

 Wine Trails Win the Hearts of Visitors to Northwestern NC
For over a century, North Carolina has been the home of vineyards, particularly in the eastern portion of the state where Scuppernong and Muscadine wines were first cultivated. Now, the northwestern portion of the state is the location of successful attempts to cultivate European and Californian types of grapevines, particularly in the Yadkin Valley. Located between Winston-Salem and Boone on U.S. 421, the Yadkin Valley Wine Trail boasts 13 viable vineyards to wow travelers. Closest to Boone, with four family-owned vineyards sprinkled at 5 mile intervals along a short highway loop, is the newly formed Vineyards of Swan Creek Wine Trail, a division of the Yadkin Valley Wine Trail. The Trail offers self-guided tours along beautiful backcountry roads, by bike or car, for visitors eager to taste French and Italian wines and unique blends. Wine "portage" is provided for bicyclers on the Trail, which is open Thursdays through Sundays from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Visit the official Web site of the Vineyards of Swan Creek Wine Trail and get a taste of what these four families are working so diligently on.

 Boone Is Named One of Four North American Adventure Destinations
  In 2005, Boone was recognized by travel journalists as the ultimate outdoor adventure destination in the Southeast, even in North America.

Along with Durango, Colorado, Bend, Oregon and North Vancouver, British Columbia, Boone, North Carolina was selected as one of four multi-sport vacation destinations in North America, featured in an article in the May 2005 issue of Adventure Sports Magazine.   READ MORE