The Appalachian Trail stretches 2,190 miles from Georgia to Maine, and the North Carolina portion features the highest peaks — including several above 6,000 feet — and some of the most beautiful views along the entire footpath. We joined super-hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis for an AT adventure to find out why knowing the Appalachian Trail is part of knowing North Carolina, and why you shouldn’t be intimidated to pull on your hiking boots — for five months, a few days, or even an hour.
Whether you’re using it to add a familiar tang to your pound cake or to marinate fried chicken, buttermilk is a Southerner’s secret ingredient.
In the early 1970s, a fortuitous partnership between one of North Carolina’s iconic industries and a financially strapped NASCAR saved stock car racing and spawned a sports institution.
Inside a modest white farmhouse in the rolling hills of Rutherford County, an extended family with deep ties to the Lake Lure community cooks up homestyle Southern feasts for the faithful.
Deep in the remote Three Sisters Swamp of the Black River stands an ancient old-growth forest. For decades, a famed bald cypress, dated to 372 AD and known as Methuselah, was its patriarch — until two even older trees were discovered.
