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Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 5:57 PM
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Do any of you folks know of any mellow non yupified cool mountain towns that are semi low profile...maybe a brewer or two? I want to spend a couple of weeks in some random mellow town/Hamlet this summer with a friend. Any ideas?
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:04 PM
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That place looks cool.
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Having never partaken of such, I have a sirius question. Do any of these local
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Feb 20, 2025, 8:01 AM
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brews / IPAs resemble commercial brewskies in any way, shape or form? Seems all I see advertised are wild a$$ flavors that no respecting 'shiner ever thought would wind up in an alcoholic concoction? Or is all that just advertising fluff, and they all taste like Budweiser?
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Honestly, why would you advise passing up the alpine glory of Gastonia, NC
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Feb 20, 2025, 8:45 AM
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and it's ready access to a dizzying array of malt liquors and a cornucopia of hard drugs?
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Hard to beat Booger Mountain.***
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Feb 20, 2025, 9:10 AM
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:04 PM
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Yes. And that's all I got to say about that
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:05 PM
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I would just be visiting. Ha
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:11 PM
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If the roads are good, head up to Spruce Pine. Hike up Mt Mitchell and explore bro.
FYI almost every computer chip in the world has silica mined up there.
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Yeah I do... Franklin NC. There is going to be this
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:06 PM
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Awesome house on a river that will be available in a couple of weeks. I heard the owners are really awesome and good people... except for the dude. He is an idiot.
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No ideas about a long stay, but I durn well gurnTEE that Franklin is worth a
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Feb 20, 2025, 8:04 AM
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trip just to go to FAT BUDDIES steak and BBQ rib joint. Gawd, that stuff is good.
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Oh yeah Franklin is nice
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:09 PM
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Spruce Pine might still be messed up from the hurricane
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Re: Oh yeah Franklin is nice
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I do consulting work for mines. They're running 24/7 hauling rock for DOT. It's coming back but will take years.
Spruce was coming around fast a month ago. Haven't been to the downtown part in a bit.
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Not really hidden but
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:07 PM
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Brevard is where I would go
Or Mars Hill
Or Waynesville
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Re: Not really hidden but
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Hotsprings if it still existed....### u Helene!!
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I just drove through there...
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:11 PM
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They are trying to get back on their feet.
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Re: I just drove through there...
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:13 PM
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Good friend of mine has a few cabins he rents and does rafting tours. He said it's better but long ways man.
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Re: I just drove through there...
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:31 PM
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Drove thru Hot Springs this weekend on way to/from Pigeon Forge. It still looks like a disaster zone.
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Re: I just drove through there...
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:58 PM
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That's what it is, unfortunately.
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Can pretty much visit all these places if there for a few days.***
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Brevard and the surrounding area are great
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You got Oscar Blues's and Ecusta Brewing as well as Brevard Brewing Company.
Close to Hendersonville for activities that aren't in Brevard (if gem mining is your thing).
Good food, Pisgah Forest, easy hikes to waterfalls.
dagnabbit, I hope I didn't say too much...
We've been going their for years to see family in Cedar Mountain.
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*there
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INB4 grammar goons
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:29 PM
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Cashiers is fun for a few days. Not sure if it's hidden or non-yupified. Or spending a day at NOC in Bryson City also fun.
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Gatlinburg is definitely non-yupified.***
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Helen, and you can go from trash to bougie in several miles.***
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Sylva
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:47 PM
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It's a college town. Waynesville, up the road, is probably my favorite town in Western NC
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Got to have the Buttered Buiscuit on your way in 😀.
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Snacks at Jack the Dipper
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Feb 20, 2025, 10:13 AM
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One of the best ice cream places I've visited.
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:46 PM
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I like this town
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:49 PM
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What's the name of that hidden place in the woods?
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:50 PM
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I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you 🤣.
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Feb 19, 2025, 6:54 PM
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One is called the Iron Horse Saloon
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Robbinsville?
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Hot Springs - but I think it has been wiped out.
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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There are a lot of great little towns in WNC. I've had the opportunity to travel a bit in my life, and WNC is still my favorite place in the world.
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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What's your favorite city there? Waynesville?
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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Probably Waynesville. Cool town and close to Smokey Mountain National Park. I like Frogman Brewing on the river.
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Re: Hidden Gems in the Mountains.. preferably NC
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I might end up moving to the mountains at one point of I see an area I like. That would be in maybe 6 months though.
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Lake Glenville is the largest high elevation lake East of the Mississippi.
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Beautiful and a short drive to Cashiers and Highlands.
At the beginning of the 1940s, the United States, engaged in a world war with Germany, needed additional aircraft bombers, and it needed them quickly. Unfortunately, you can’t make those types of bombers out of just anything — they required lightweight aluminum and a lot of it.
Alcoa, owner of NP&L, just so happened to be the largest aluminum producer in the country and, under the direction of President Franklin Roosevelt, looked for a way to produce the resource fast to support the troops.
Alcoa turned to the waters of western North Carolina for help, quickly constructing the Nantahala and Thorpe hydro powerhouses and damming and flooding Lake Glenville and Nantahala Lake to produce the large amounts of electricity needed to power aluminum sheet metal production for Allied aircraft. At the time, both dams were higher than any similar ### that had ever been constructed in the eastern half of the United States.
Both the Thorpe and Nantahala hydro developments are unique in that their penstocks – the tunnels that carry water from the upper reservoir to the powerhouse – are several miles long. Tunneled through mountain rock, the penstock for the Nantahala powerhouse is over 5 miles long, and the penstock for Thorpe is nearly 3 miles long.
“You sit back and marvel at the engineering challenge these plants were. They blasted and built these tunnels in a mountain, and they did it in less than two years. Today, something similar may take many years,” said Preston Pierce, the general manager for Duke Energy’s 11 hydroelectric plants that sit in the western footprint. With the company for more than 25 years, Pierce overseas the seven legacy NP&L hydro plants.
According to a news article from that period, “More Power for Bomber Productions,” the new power plants could produce, “enough aluminum to build 1,230 ‘Flying Fortress’ bombers.” In the 1940s, the Thorpe and Nantahala hydro developments enabled Alcoa to produce enough aluminum to pump out two bombers a day.
https://theplateaumag.com/the-power-of-water-in-western-north-carolina
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I'll echo what others have said
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We rented the Blue Boar Inn in Robbinsville once, nothing around for miles
Lake Glenville is also outstanding
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Telluride
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Obed® might be there right now
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Re: Telluride
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Yes...such a bargain and nobody knows about it. No yuppies at all. Telluride should be top of my list.
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Truly a hidden gem
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in that it is hidden in that box canyon and 100% a gem
I love that place, but dang, it is 'spensive
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We go to Bear Lake for two weeks each year. Super off the grid
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little to zero cell service, but you need to grocery shop before you get there as it takes about 20-30 to get to a grocery store. I love that place. We stay in the reserve so that we can eat/drink/gym/use the pool.
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Saluda
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Feb 20, 2025, 9:54 AM
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Really small, but not too far away from anything you would want to do
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I second the Saluda rec... nice little downtown eat at the Purple Onion
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Feb 20, 2025, 10:30 AM
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but also close enough to other towns if you want to explore
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Re: I second the Saluda rec... nice little downtown eat at the Purple Onion
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Looked it up. Looks cool.
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The Purple Onion do be good.
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Feb 20, 2025, 10:35 AM
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Also some good burgers and dogs at Ward's Grill.
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