A FREE Daily Visitor Guide for the North Carolina Mountains and 50+ NC Mountain Cities: Highlands Welcomes Christmas this weekend with snow flurries and a parade

Friday, December 3, 2010

Highlands Welcomes Christmas this weekend with snow flurries and a parade

The Highlands Annual Christmas Parade is tomorrow morning at 11AM on Main Street. Light accumulations of snow are predicted for Saturday night and Sunday. What a GREAT weekend in Highlands to put you in the Christmas Spirit!

Winter is a wonderful time to visit Highlands with the invigorating mountain weather and special rates and packages offered by many Highland Inns and cabin rentals. Find Winter Escapes at Mitchell's Lodge and Cottages beginning at $59 per week night for Deluxe Rooms with a gas log fireplace, wet bar, private balcony with rocking chairs and daily continental breakfast. At HIGHLANDS RENTALS you may choose from: the cozy Stone’s Throw log cabin less than ½ mile to Highlands or a quaint mountain Lakeview cottage w/ beautiful view of Lake Sequoyah or the contemporary Mountain view cabin tucked in the woods with 10 acres. Rates begin at $95+nt, $695+wk - Enter to win a free week at Highlands Rentals. The Chambers Agency has an inventory of 80+ vacation rentals in and around Highlands NC in every style and price range from 1 - 6 bedrooms and mountain cabins to close-in condos.

Highlands NC is known for the quality of its cultural activities and its charming downtown shops. The Highlands Playhouse is an equity theater with four or five productions during the summer season. Highlands NC restaurants are among the finest in Western North Carolina - and that's quite an accomplishment! Stay a weekend, a week or an entire season and enjoy golf, mountain hiking, biking, canoeing and river rafting or ongoing art exhibits, events and workshops at the Bascom Art Center.

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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.