Blue Ridge Parkway – Parkway Road Closure Due to Continued Slide Stabilization (U.S. National Park Service) – North Carolina Mountain Dreams

Date: February 9, 2012

Contact: Larry Hultquist, (828) 348 3482

Contact: Mike Molling, (828) 348 3445

The Blue Ridge Parkway will close the section between State Route 191, at French Broad Parking Overlook, Milepost 393.8, to State Route 151, Milepost 405, beginning Monday, February 13, 2012. This closure is expected to remain in place until [...]

Brown Mountain Lights – North Carolina Mountain Dreams

MORGANTON –No matter how they try, scientists ranging from paranormal investigators to serious physicists are unable to unlock the mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights in Burke County.

“Artists and scientists alike have congregated around this phenomena,” said Joshua P. Warren, Asheville native turned paranormal investigator who spoke before a crowd of 120 Saturday at [...]

Checker Players, Mast General Store, Valle Crucis, North Carolina – 16″x20″ – Fine-Art Gicle Photographic Print by Carol M. Highsmith – North Carolina Mountain Dreams

Checker Players, Mast General Store, Valle Crucis, North Carolina – 16″x20″ – Fine-Art Gicle Photographic Print by Carol M. Highsmith

Playing Checkers at Mast General Store, Valle Crucis, North Carolina Photographer Carol M. Highsmith Photographs America offers thousands of landscape and city views, as well as historic photos from the Library of Congress [...]

2012 Blue Ridge Parkway Calendar Photo Contest – North Carolina Mountain Dreams

2012 Blue Ridge Parkway Calendar Photo Contest

The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and RaysWeather.Com are partnering to produce a 2012 Blue Ridge Parkway Calendar.

RaysWeather.Com has sponsored a photo contest and a calendar featuring photos from NW North Carolina for the past nine years. For the 2012 Calendar, the photo contest solicits photographs the [...]

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Land Conservation Groups Protect NC Acreage

The High Country Press is reporting the following.

The Blue Ridge Conservancy and National Committee for the New River recently announced achievements in land conservation. The N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund provided funding for two local projects.

Blue Ridge Conservancy John and Faye Cooper, owners of Mast General Store, have donated a conservation [...]

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Checker Players, Mast General Store, Valle Crucis, North Carolina – 16″x20″ – Fine-Art Gicle Photographic Print by Carol M. Highsmith | North Carolina Mountain Dreams

Playing Checkers at Mast General Store, Valle Crucis, North Carolina

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith

Photographs America offers thousands of landscape and city views, as well as historic photos from the Library of Congress collection.

Each Print is carefully packaged in either a strong card-board tube, or in a heavy duty card-board envelope to insure safe [...]