The mountains are a great place for a family vacation, there are so many places to visit and explore. We have started the Just for Kid's section so that we can share a bit of the mountains with your kids. Read our stories, read our book reviews, visit our sponsors print our coloring pages, color them at home or take them in the car to entertain you on your mountain trip. We are starting a new "Highlander Kid Club" with free membership to bring positive stories, books, trips, art and creative projects. Bookmark and come back to watch the progress.

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Visit our Sponsor's these are great places for Kids to Discover in the Mountains

Gorilla Haven is the world's only private, AZA* certified gorilla holding facility.  It was not designed to be open to the public and is still under construction, but owners, Owners, Steuart and Jane Dewar, have offered to provide some personal tours to offer a rare opportunity to our friends and neighbors, and to help raise funds for this important project. Walking tour will include behind-the-scenes of the GH facility, including gorilla villas, habitat, veterinary hospital, food preparation room, administration, and group building. Chances of seeing gorilla residents, Joe and Oliver, are excellent and photography is allowed.

Visitors to the Foxfire Museum in Mountain City, GA, can imaginatively re-create the works and days of Southern Appalachia in the 1800's. Foxfire also has a series of books 40 to date on mountain culture, covering every topic you can think of.

John C Campbell Folk School offers creative, learning vacations for adults in a beautiful natural setting. With classes in craft, art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, nature studies, photography and writing. Discover why Rand McNally Atlas named the Folk School one of the top 30 U.S. destinations for a day’s visit in their Best of the Road listing. Numerous walking trails meander the 300-acre campus, including the Rivercane Walk, a creekside trail with art honoring the strong Cherokee heritage of the Appalachian area.

The Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds are right on beautiful Lake Chatuge in Towns County Georgia. The Fairgrounds sit along the banks and are surrounded by the mountains, including the tallest mountains in Georgia. The Festivals and Concerts start in early spring with the Rhododendron Festival, followed by the Bluegrass Festival, The Georgia Mountain Fair, Fall Festival, Super Star Concerts, Georgia's Official State Fiddler's Convention and there are campgrounds right on beautiful shores of Lake Chatuge.

The Lost Mine of Murphy located 1/2 mile east of Wal-Mart in Murphy, NC next door to Liquidation Station, and has a hidden treasure for everyone. You'll also find a rock and mineral store full of display pieces from all over the world. Prospectors can mine for gold and native gems like emeralds, rubies, sapphires, aquamarine and other semi-precious stones in our timber framed and covered mine flumes!

Hiwassee Valley Pool & Wellness Center is a family friendly facility which offers year round aquatics, swim team, swim lessons, and lifeguard training. We also offer a fully equipped weight room, aerobics room with numerous cardio classes, yoga, pilates, cardio-kick, line dancing and much more!

Medicine Bow is a 35 acre wilderness school tucked into the Chattahoochee National Forest in the mountains of north Georgia near Dahlonega. The owner and teacher, Mark Warren, guides his students toward their own unique relationship with nature through the Earthlore accumulated by the Native Americans. Through the classes of Medicine Bow nature takes on new values as the source of food, medicine, craft materials, fire, tools, shelter and primitive weaponry. Learning through the patient methods of the American Indians, students encounter a vast academic growth as well as a spiritual one.

Medicine Bow Adventure Camp for both boys and girls 10 and older wanting a broader spectrum of activities, survival skills, learning plants and their uses, tomahawk & knife throwing, archery, fire creation, games, hikes … By request, I have started offering summer camps dedicated just to the skill and adventure of Archery.  Pardon the boast, but there is no archery program like this one. I pour my 25 years of experience into the best instruction I have yet experienced in any other camp or school. But this serious teaching is balanced by games of adventure, quickness, and discretion such as were practiced in Native American communities as well as in Sherwood Forest.

The Learning Center!   A North Carolina Charter School located in Murphy North Carolina.

TLC Montessori Preschool in Murphy North Carolina, preparing children to be the best they can be.

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Horseback Riding in the Mountains

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Book Reviews

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