New Mile High Bridge Plank on Grandfather's Swinging Bridge

Learn a new snowsport Saturday, January 10 - free!

Mountaineer star quarterback Armanti Edwards wins 2008 Walter Payton award

Sugarfest snowball-eating contest winners

Willie Nelson to perform Feb. 19 at Appalachian

Mountaineers picked as one of the "Top Ten Sexiest Teams in College Football" for 2008

Olympians come to Sugar Mountain for Ski Clinic

Special Event Line-Up At Sugar Mountain Resort For The 2008-2009 Winter Season

Booze Comes to Boone
 
High Country Back Roads

High Country Choose and Cut Festival

 Wine Trails Win the Hearts of Visitors to Northwestern NC
For over a century, North Carolina has been the home of vineyards, particularly in the eastern portion of the state where Scuppernong and Muscadine wines were first cultivated.

Now, the northwestern portion of the state is the location of successful attempts to cultivate European and Californian types of grapevines, particularly in the Yadkin Valley.

Located between Winston-Salem and Boone on U.S. 421, the Yadkin Valley Wine Trail boasts 13 viable vineyards to wow travelers.   READ MORE

 Boone Is Named One of Four North American Adventure Destinations
  In 2005, Boone was recognized by travel journalists as the ultimate outdoor adventure destination in the Southeast, even in North America.

Along with Durango, Colorado, Bend, Oregon and North Vancouver, British Columbia, Boone, North Carolina was selected as one of four multi-sport vacation destinations in North America, featured in an article in the May 2005 issue of Adventure Sports Magazine.   READ MORE