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For a limited time only, indulge in the elegance of our boutique hotels and revel in the charm of our destinations at an incredible value.

Starting this Friday November 24th, book two nights at one of our boutique hotels and get your third night FREE!

Mark your calendars and don't miss out on these unbeatable prices!

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Quiet Givers Needs Your Help to Heat Up the High Country

Boone, NC-Quiet Givers, a local non-profit organization serving Watauga, Avery, and Ashe counties, is launching its annual “Heat Up the High Country” campaign for the fourth consecutive year this November 2023. The campaign aims to raise funds to assist families struggling with heating fuel bills throughout the fall and winter seasons.

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The Appalachian Theater this November!

Hospitality House of Northwest N.C. Awarded $2.5 Million Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant to Help Rural Northwest North Carolina Families Find Safe Shelter, Housing and Stability Fund grants $117.55 million to 38 nonprofits across the U.S. making measurable progress on reducing family homelessness.

Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina, a regional nonprofit homeless services agency working in seven rural counties to provide housing, shelter, food access, homeless prevention, street outreach, counseling, and crisis assistance, today announced that it has received a $2.5 million grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund—the largest gift in the organization’s history. This is the sixth round of annual Day 1 Families Fund grants, which recognize leading organizations doing compassionate, needle-moving work to help families experiencing homelessness secure housing and achieve stability.

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View upcoming BRAHM events here!

For their members, they have two special shopping opportunities this season: November 21st and 28th from 11am to 5pm! Add an additional 10% discount to your 10% Member discount

on most items in their Gift Shop!

Help Grandfather Mountain’s garden grow this Giving Tuesday

LINVILLE, N.C. – This Giving Tuesday, you can help enhance the experience of students and visitors of all ages at Grandfather Mountain – the not-for-profit nature park run by the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation – by contributing to the purchase of educational signage for the new Cobey Botanical Garden.

Surrounding the Wilson Center for Nature Discovery, this space provides a home to plantings of several local species and has beautiful meandering pathways that link together Grandfather’s Conservation Campus.

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The High Country Turkey Trot 5K Race and Fun Run / Walk will take place on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday November 23, on the Boone Greenway Trail at the Clawson-Burnley Park entrance.

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Festival of Lights

Friday, November 24 -

January 29, 2023

Chetola Resort features a sparkling display of lights each winter season. The Festival of Lights is free and open to the public, and you are invited to enjoy thousands of dazzling illuminations throughout the resort. 

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Save the Date

Winter Group Exhibition

& Small Works

Holiday Open House

Friday & Saturday

November 24, 25 10 - 5

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“A Carolina Snowbelle Christmas” Returns December 1 – 3, 2023 Expanded Schedule, Christmas Tea Party Await App Theatre Audiences



For the fourth consecutive year, having experienced sold out performances in each of their first three seasons at the Appalachian Theatre of the High Country, “A Carolina Snowbelle Christmas” returns to the venerable, state-of-the-art facility with an expanded performance schedule of four public performances and an encore family event to enhance their standing as the region’s newest must-see family holiday tradition. 

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Santa Sightings!

The Last Straw will have Santa visiting their store on Dec. 2nd and Dec. 9th from 12 - 3 pm,

for photo opportunities. Bring your children

 and pets! 

Santa is also coming to the Mast General Store

this December!

HELP SANTA SAVE CHRISTMAS

DECEMBER 1 – 31, 2023

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW SANTA TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD TO DELIVER PRESENTS TO EVERYONE IN JUST ONE NIGHT?

HE USES GRAVITATIONAL VORTEXES JUST LIKE THE ONE HERE AT MYSTERY HILL TO WARP HIMSELF FROM PLACE TO PLACE! 

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The Blowing Rock Chamber has empty bags here that people can pick up, fill and return by 9 am on:



Dec 2nd