Topics Related to Western North Carolina

Beating the Heat: Chasing Waterfalls in Western North Carolina

With temperatures 10 to 20 degrees cooler, Western North Carolina provides a welcome escape during the dog days of summer. Imagine your face sprinkled with the mist of a waterfall as you rest on a cool rock under a forest canopy.

Mount Mitchell Declared Highest Peak in Eastern U.S.

On November 3, 1835, Elisha Mitchell, a professor at the University of North Carolina, announced that a peak in the Black Mountains of North Carolina was the highest in the eastern United States.

Andrews Geyser at Old Fort

On May 6, 1976, the town of Old Fort in McDowell County rededicated its once nationally-known Andrews Geyser.