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Highlander Gallery
10079 Old Highway 64 • Brasstown NC
Current Featured Artist
Anthony Abreu
Gallery Hours...
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
11 am to 5 pm
Blue Ridge, Georgia
BRMAA - The Art Center
presents
15th Annual Arts in the Park
October 11th & 12th
Saturday & Sunday
Fall Arts in the Park hosts over 170+ artists, exhibitors, and vendors booths, our visitors enjoy a variety of fine arts and fine crafts, demonstrations, food, and much more during the Arts in the Park festivals.
Hiawassee, Georgia
Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds
Hosts...
The 52nd Annual Fall Festival
September 9th - 20th
With its mild temperatures and beautiful scenery there is no better place to be than the North Georgia Mountains in the fall. Enjoy exciting music performances, Arts & Craft vendors, educational demonstrations, a flower show and more!
Lots of Musical Talent throught the Festival...
Chase Rice, Southbound
The Martins & High Road
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Josh Turner - This Country Music Thing Tour
Trace Adkins
Chimney Rock, North Carolina
Chimney Rock at Chimney
Rock State Park
Nature's Colors!
Fall Photo Contest
October 15th - November 15th
Fall is the perfect time to explore Chimney Rock, and take some fabulous photos along the way. Send us your best, most creative snapshots of fall color views at Chimney Rock for the chance to win prizes! Full contest details on line.
GREAT PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED TO 3 WINNING ENTRIES
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Stay Safe and enjoy these beautiful, peaceful mountains....
One of the special wonders in these mountains is the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Parkway begins or ends on the edge of the Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia the Blue Ridge Parkway travels 469-miles southwestern along the high ridges and over the tall mountain peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains ending or beginning at the southern gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
To get the most out of your scenic road trip the Highlander suggest starting out early and begin your journey from the town of Cherokee where the Blue Ridge Parkway officially ends at the southern entrance gateway into the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
Read more...A day trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway...from Cherokee to Asheville
Take a trip on the Cherohala Skyway Scenic Byway and it is mobile ready. The Cherohala Skyway's 36-miles of scenic mountain views rival any scenic byway in the eastern United States. Mountaintops, waterfalls and waterways joined together with wildlife and giant trees, adorn this high country of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. I was very impressed with Spirit Ridge Overlook with an elevation of 4,950-feet. This is by far the best handicap access location along the Cherohala Skyway.
The average trip over the Skyway takes 2 1/2-hours, if you just want to drive and view scenery. I would recommend setting aside the best part of the day to enjoy some of the bigger than life features the Cherohala Skyway and Unicoi Mountain Wilderness have to offer.
Read more.. A day trip on the Cherohala Skyway Scenic Byway
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