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Friday, October 15, 2010

NC Mountain Events this Weekend

This weekend in the NC Mountains is the beginning of the "peak" of fall color. For the next two to three week color will be visible in all it variety throughout the mountain areas. Get current details for the fall color in the Great Smoky Mountains or a general overview of leaf changes throughout Western North Carolina. What a wonderful backdrop for this weekend's events:

15 VALLE CRUCIS Valle Country Fair
15 BREVARD Discovery at Dusk - A Guided Canoe Trip
15-16 MAGGIE VALLEY Bluegrass Music Weekend Celebration
15-17 MAGGIE VALLEY 4th Annual Mountain Music Jamboree
15-17 CHEROKEE ATHS Big Rigs Show
15-17 FRANKLIN 21st Annual Leaf Lookers Gemboree
15 - 17 BRYSON CITY PeanutsTM - The Great Pumpkin Patch Express
15-17 FLAT ROCK Fall Harvest of Quilts
16 WAYNESVILLE 22nd Annual Apple Harvest Festival
16 ASHEVILLE Art in the Park
16 BLACK MOUNTAIN Fall by the Tracks
16 MAGGIE VALLEY NC Mountain Corvair Club Show
16 LITTLE SWITZERLAND The Blue Ridge Brass & Montreat Scottish Pipes and Drums
16 BRYSON CITY 20th Annual Bryson City Chili Cook-Off
16 - 17 TRYON 3rd Annual Tryon Arts & Crafts Fall Festival
16 - 17 BANNER ELK Woolly Worm Festival
16 - 17 SAPPHIRE VALLEY Sapphire Valley Arts & Crafts Festival
16-17 ASHEVILLE NC Chrysanthemum Society Annual Show
16-17 MAGGIE VALLEY Maggie Valley Annual Fall Arts & Crafts Festival
17 OLD FORT Classic Car Show
17 OLD FORT Informal Jam on the Porch

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