After recovering relatively quickly from Hurricane Helene, the North Carolina mountain town of Murphy (and surrounding ...

Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. All hosted affiliate links follow our editorial & privacy policies. After Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc throughout Western NC in late September 2024 ...

After visiting North Carolina for the first time, Senior Writer Jonathon Engels and wife Emma spent 2 years exploring Western NC in search of a homestead property. They first lived in Brevard, where ...

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Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. All hosted affiliate links follow our editorial & privacy policies. Now in its 11th year, Winter Lights at the NC Arboretum ranks right alongside ...

Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. All hosted affiliate links follow our editorial & privacy policies. You can’t swing a stick in Western NC without hitting a wonderful place to ...

Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. All hosted affiliate links follow our editorial & privacy policies. Although things in Western North Carolina haven’t exactly returned to normal for ...

This holiday season is extra special for the town of Banner Elk NC, especially after having spent the last two months climbing out from under the devastation Hurricane Helene brought. As a small North ...

Since Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina in late September, we’ve received hundreds of requests on our Facebook page to create a guide to Western NC stores that offer online shopping. We ...

Galax is one of those quaint little Virginia mountain towns that becomes all the more endearing during the Christmas holidays. Although best-known as “the Old-Time Music Capital of the World,” Galax ...

The BRMTG was created by Bret Love & Mary Gabbett, the award-winning team behind the world-renowned responsible travel website Green Global Travel. Born and raised in North Georgia, Editor-In-Chief ...