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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Hunger Games Walking Tour this Saturday

September 29 Hunger Games Walking Tour Explore DuPont State Recreational Forest with your Mentor to discover the locations used in some of "The Games" during The Hunger Games movie. Master fundamental survival skills like orienteering, camouflaging, and shelter building. Lunch will be provided in Hunger Games style. Tour includes activities, lunch, Dupont State Recreational Forest permit and guides/mentors.

Get a link for the Hunger Games Tour and other Brevard NC Events and attractions on the Brevard NC Visitor Guide.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Hungar Games Fan Tours this Weekend

Date: August 24-26 Hunger Games Fan Tour Explore DuPont State Forest and see The Hunger Games movie locations. Learn basic survival skills: orienteering, camouflage, and shelter building. Lunch will be provided in Hunger Games style. Shuttle service, DuPont State Recreational Forest permit, light Hunger Games lunch and guides provided. Pre-registration required. Cost is $79 per person.

DuPont State Forest One of North Carolina's newer parks. DuPont offers more than 10,000 acres of forest, trails, and 10 waterfalls and is located in Cedar Falls NC between Brevard and Hendersonville North Carolina. You can enjoy the trails by foot, bike or horse or bring the fishing gear and picnic basket. For a link and current Park conditions visit the NC Parks Visitor Guide..

DuPont State Forest is located in Transylvania County near Brevard and Cedar Mountain NC.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Hunger Games Fan Tours in Brevard

July 14-15 Hunger Games Fan Tour Explore DuPont State Forest and see The Hunger Games movie locations. Learn basic survival skills: orienteering, camouflage, and shelter building. Lunch will be provided in Hunger Games style. Shuttle service, DuPont State Recreational Forest permit, light Hunger Games lunch and guides provided. Pre-registration required. Cost is $79 per person.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Asheville Offers Hunger Games Experiences

The Asheville Chamber of Commerce and the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority have compiled a variety of itineraries for visitors to experience the excitement of the blockbuster movie, Hunger Games. Get up close and personal with the behind the scenes NC mountain settings that provided the incredible backdrop for the movie.

The stars of the Hunger Games shot the movie scenes during the day and retired to Asheville for great dining and entertainment at night. You can visit the same Asheville hotspots that Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and other cast and crew members enjoyed. Get a Hunger Games interactive map online or at the Asheville Chamber of Commerce.

Tours of local mountain sites include:
- Dupont State Forest, in which the Falls and wood were the backdrop for the arena scenes

- Craggy Pinnacle, home to the Cornucopia and select Arena scenes. The Pinnacle itself is not open to the public, but the surrounding areas are at Craggy Gardens and Mount Mitchell.

- Coleman Boundary / Big Ivy, the rocky area and creek surrounding it are in the Corner Rock area of the forest surrounded the soundstand-created cave that Katniss and Peeta use for shelter.

- Henry River Mill Village, an abandoned mill town about an hour east of Asheville which stood in for the Seam areas of District 12. The signs on the sides of the Mellarks' bakery are clearly visible.

Get a link for Asheville's Hunger Games Itinerary HERE

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Hunger Games Fan Tours in Brevard

When The Hunger Games movie opened on March 23 Brevard NC was pleased to be in the spotlight. With many of the scenes in the Hunger Games shot in DuPont State Fores, Brevard area businesses and community organizations are offering visitors a chance to get "up close and personal" with the behind the scenes action of the popular movie with locally sponsored Hunger Games Tours. . Get a link for the Brevard Hunger Games Tours HERE

Leigh Trapp with The Marketing Trapp and Tammy Hopkins, Film Liaison and Transylvania Community Arts Council Director for Brevard and Transylvania County have put together Hunger Games Fan Tours which will feature the filming locations used by The Hunger Games movie in DuPont State Recreational Forest."

Day Trips: Explore DuPont State Recreational Forest and discover the locations used in the movie. Master fundamental survival skills like orienteering, camo-face painting, and shelter building needed to excel in the Hunger Games. Lunch will be provided in Hunger Games style. Shuttle service, DuPont State Recreational Forest permit and guides are provided. Ages: Tours are best suited for children 10 yrs + accompanied by an adult, family tour groups are welcome. Any child under the at the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Parking/Orientation Location: Comporium Parking Lot Main Street across from the Brevard/Transylvania Chamber of Commerce (190 East Main Street, Brevard, NC 28712) Pre-registration required. Cost $79 per person May 26, May 27, July 14, July 15, Aug. 11, Aug. 12 More dates will be added soon for the spring, summer and fall.

Weekend Trips: Start your Hunger Games Fan Tours’ Adventure Weekend on Friday by gathering at Earthshine Mountain Lodge for an incredible evening. You’ll be part of the lottery and get separated into your own District. You’ll then join other Tributes for a welcoming banquet – Hunger Games style.

Saturday you’ll be dropped on location in DuPont State Recreational Forest, where you’ll discover clues that will lead you to the filming location sites used in the movie. Your Sponsor will be on hand to assist you – and to teach you survival skills along the way. You’ll then reconvene at Earthshine Mountain Lodge for lunch. The afternoon will be filled with survival classes that you’ll need to participate in the Hunger Games Simulation: archery, sling shot training, fire building, orienteering, shelter building, and camo-face painting. In the evening you’ll have another Hunger Games dinner sponsored by the Capital – and you’ll night zip-line and see what it’s like to be in the tree tops at night like Katniss and Rue. Sunday – you’ll convene for your Hunger Games Simulation. See if you and your district have what it takes to win the Hunger Games. Our Hunger Games Simulation will be timed trials of the skills you’ve learned over the weekend.

Ages: Tours are best suited for children 10 yrs + accompanied by an adult. We welcome family tour groups. Any child under the at the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Night zip-lining requires participants to be 10 yrs +.

Your Hunger Games Weekend includes: three days and two nights stay at Earthshine Mountain Lodge, 6 Hunger Games meals, Hunger Games snacks, guides, all Hunger Games skill training, Night Zip Lining and your Hunger Games Simulation. Shuttle service to and from the Asheville Regional Airport is included.

Cost: $389 per person. Note: There is a $2 ticketing process fee from Ticketleap, our ticket service. April 27 – 29, June 8 – 10, June 22 – 24, July 27 – 29, August 24-26, September 21 – 23

The Blue Ridge Parkway at 469 miles long is the nation's longest scenic rural parkway. Now 70 years old it is administered by the National Park Service and host to approximately 20 million visits annually. It connects the Shenandoah Valley National Park with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. Along the route are opportunities for lodging, dining, camping, hiking and simply enjoying breathtaking views from easily accessible overlooks and picnic areas. For additional information visit :The Blueridge Parkway Association

The River Arts District is open year around with the opportunity to meet artists in their studios. Schedules are available online. This unique area along the French Broad River is home to more than 165 artists with working studios located in 18 turn-of-the-century industrial buildings. The artists of the River Arts District welcome you into their studios to talk with them, see their latest artwork, watch demonstrations, and experience for yourself the magic hidden inside the time-worn factories and warehouses along the French Broad River.

Chimney Rock Park is named for a 500 million-year-old giant granite monolith overlooking Hickory Nut Gorge. Visitors are awed by the breathtaking view that spreads 1200 vertical feet beneath them and 75 miles across the Carolinas. The now state owned park encompasses 1,000 acres offers the best of the mountains in one place with spectacular 75-mile views, hiking trails for all ages, a 404-foot waterfall, a variety of special events and much more. Chimney Rock NC

The National Scenic Byways Program is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The program is a grass-roots collaborative effort established to help recognize, preserve and enhance selected roads throughout the United States. Since 1992, the National Scenic Byways Program has provided funding for almost 1500 state and nationally designated byway projects in 48 states. The U.S. Secretary of Transportation recognizes certain roads as All-American Roads or National Scenic Byways based on one or more archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational and scenic qualities.

Tsali Recreation Area is an outdoors lover's paradise. Probably the most popular features of Tsali Recreation Area are the 39 miles of trails suited for mountain bikers and horse-back riders, as well as hikers. The 4-loop system offers a variety of landscapes. You can climb 1-foot wide rugged paths or travel flat, well-beaten roads. The four trails--Right, Left, Mouse Branch, and Thompson Loops--meander through mixed pine and hardwoods on a peninsula stretching into Fontana Lake. Near Bryson City NC and Robbinsville NC.