Appalachian Mountain Dreams

2023 Festival & Event Guide

“Food and drink! Music and artworks! Seasonal celebrations galore! Pick your favorite festival theme and start planning.” Blue Ridge Country I was spending some time on Facebook today and saw a post about NC Mineral and Gem Festival. The post had a copy of the cover of the Blue Ridge Country Magazine 2023 Festival & Event Guide. For over a

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Motorcycle Adventures in the Southern Appalachians

ISBN-13 : 978-1889596310 Dimensions : 8.7 x 0.4 x 8.2 inches Publisher : University of Georgia Press; 2nd edition (April 1, 2015) Language: : English The motorcycle byways of the Southern Appalachians are classic: Georgia 60, the notorious ‘Dragon,’ and the Cherohala Skyway. Ride to the top of Georgia’s Brasstown Bald and over Tennessee’s Lookout Mountain. Cruise remote back roads to Highlands, NC, highest

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Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Georgia Mountains

This is one of the books that lives on the bookcase by my desk for quick reference…I swear by the series. Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Georgia Mountains (Longstreet Highlands Innactive Series) With these three guidebooks to the mountains of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, the publisher launches a series that promises to include Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, New Hampshire, and

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Explorer’s Guide 50 Hikes in the North Georgia Mountains: Walks, Hikes and Backpacking Trips from Lookout Mountain to the Blue Ridge to the Chattooga River (Explorer’s 50 Hikes)

Have a need to work on that Nature Deficit Disorder this week? This could be the book to guide you out to the trail that begins the cure…Sometime you just need a quick “mountain fix”, sometimes it needs to be more of a short expedition away from the humdrum realities of modern life. The best day hikes, walks, and backpacks

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