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A Dozen Ways To Beat The Summer Heat
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Nowhere else in the Smokies can you find as many ways to enjoy water as the Bryson City area offers. From mountain cascades and waterfalls to scenic rivers to the mighty Lake Fontana, you can fish, swim, ski, go boating, tubing, rafting and kayaking. Or if you're more laid back, take an easy walk to three sparkling waterfalls just outside of town. We've got four exciting rivers, a deep mountain lake, and more crystal clear creeks than you can count. Want some ideas? Click here for a sampling of cool summer fun on the water. Recommended By The National MediaCharlotte Observer picked Bryson City as a Great Town to Walk. "Here's a picture-perfect place...Main Street is impeccably groomed, a flat and easy walk - and the horizon holds breathtaking mountain views."
Paddler Magazine named Bryson City one of the "best paddling towns" in the US.Along with the multiple spots for great paddling, they focus on Tsali mountain bike trails, area adventure races and canoe camping on Fontana Lake.
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ABC's Good Morning America Features the Deal's Gap 'Dragon' A "Weekend Adventure" segment on "Good Morning America" featured the Deals Gap "Dragon," a section of Western North Carolina highway that's popular with motorcycle riders. The section of U.S. Hwy. 129 has more than 30 turns per mile. Host Bill Weir drove a North Carolina-made Indian Motorcycle along the famed highway, and interviewed Dale Walksler, curator of the Wheels Through Time motorcycle museum in Maggie Valley, about what makes the mountains such a great place to ride motorcycles. View the segment. Big Brothers Big Sisters Raffle You Could Own a Vacation Log Cabin in the Smokies WIth Just a $100 Ticket
Anniversary year The Blue Ridge Parkway Celebrates 75 Years As The Nation's Favorite Backroad
The anniversary year kicked off in November with special events, including this one in Cherokee. For more info, visit the official 75th anniversary website. |
Things To Do in the Smokies
Ongoing Entertainment - Click here for more info about music and entertainment in Western North Carolina.
Music: The Rib Tips, 9/4, Bryson City Train Depot; Hank Williams Jr. ,9/3 & Lady Antebellum 9/4 opening weekend for The Event Center at Harrah's Casino; Labor Day Gospel Festival featuring The Inspirations (pictured), Smoky Mtn. Arts Center, Franklin.
Saturday, September 4 - 5K Run & Fireman's Day Street Festival. Crafts, BBQ, Miss Flame Contest, fire truck parade. For race information contact Selena at 828-488-2585.
September 4 - Qualla Indian Art Market. Cherokee, intersection of Drama Rd. & 441 N.Rainy Day? There's still plenty to do in the Smokies. For some suggestions, click here (pdf) |
Bryson City in Books, Music & film
Bryson City and the North Carolina Smokies have been connected with numerous books, films and songs. One of our best-known authors was Horace Kephart, whose "Our Southern Highlanders" focused national attention on the Great Smoky Mountains. And much of the "The Fugitive" starring Harrison Ford was filmed in and around Bryson City. More about Bryson City in Books, Film and Music.
On a Budget? Download "Ten Free Things To Do in the Smokies" PDF |
The Chamber of Commerce is now filling orders for the free 80-page Bryson City – Swain County – Great Smoky Mountains Vacation Planner for 2010.
You can request your own copy here. And if you'd like, you can also request information from area businesses and sign up for our monthly newsletter of upcoming events in the North Carolina Smokies.
As an option, you may also download a PDF of the 80-page Visitors Guide (13 MB)
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The book "101 Best Outdoor Towns" named Bryson City the nation's third best whitewater paddling town. "If you can't find something exciting to do in Bryson City, you're not breathing," it says.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western North Carolina is raffling off a new log cabin in the Smoky Mountains near Bryson City. Raffle tickets are just $100 and can be puchased on a special website, 
The 469-mile-long Parkway began in the 1930s as a Depression-era public works project and was more than a half-century in the making. It was the nation's first, and ultimately longest, rural parkway, connecting Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina.
