Highroad Guide To the North Carolina Mountains

This is my go to book whenever I want to start looking into visiting a new area of the North Carolina mountains.

Whether you are a first-time visitor or an experienced mountain traveler, the Highroad Guide to the North Carolina Mountains is the indispensable reference to the best the mountains have [...]

Little Switzerland

My Discovery

On my first trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains I had a rental car and a road map of North Carolina and a desire to see some mountains. Up until that point in my life I had flown over, landed in the middle of, or skirted the edge of the Rockies. I had [...]

The Guide That Always Travels With Us On The Blue Ridge Parkway

If there is one book that always travels with us on the dashboard as we drive the Blue Ridge Parkway, this is it. With it’s mile post directory and interesting tips, it’s what we reach for first.

With a new cover and text design, this milepost guide highlights the many significant points of interest located [...]

Edges and Order – New York Times

From Verlyn Klinkenborg of The New York Times comes this paragraph today…

Nearly every image of nature I have ever come across misses the sense of intricate confusion underfoot in the woods, the thickets of goldenrod collapsing into each other along the roadsides, the rotting tusks of fallen beeches broken against the western hillside. It [...]