Guys,
Just wanted to share the area we went on family vacation this year, up near Cashiers and Saphire, close to Gorges State Park. This was pretty much our area of operations. I had marked the map with places to see, hike, etc. First the town, Highlands is a Bugie place, my daughter taught me a new word. If you didnt know better, the town was sponsored by Lexus and Range Rover, with a few Bentleys and Ferraris to fill the fun. Restaurants can be out there expensive, but we found enough "mountain" expensive and with very good food. Lots of shopping downtown, we didn't see overpriced crap, mostly within normal range of Amazon (yes, I checked in the store!).
It is a very nice town to park and walk around, go into shops, eat, coffee, etc. We did drive on NC64 quite a bit to go places on hikes, or explore. We did encounter the most dangerous animal in the area, totally fearless and could take your life in a second; middle age women racing on Lexus RX's on the mountain roads. They would challenge Lewis Hamilton in the rain, pretty amazingly stupid.
There is a high end market in Higlands where water is milked from organically grown clouds and served in Tiffani glasses. But there was an Ingles Market down the road in Cashiers. We had to try the first one at least once. Thats some good tasting water. We explored the forest roads around town, nothing special from a driving perspective, but great walking the dogs on these lanes. There are nice campsites on the South entrance to Glenn Falls, all dirt road driving.
The house was pretty comfortable, AC didnt work first day but got fixed the next.
Back porch, South views into GA mountains
Alarm system distributed in the house for black bear intrusions (owner was very worried about it)
Just wanted to share the area we went on family vacation this year, up near Cashiers and Saphire, close to Gorges State Park. This was pretty much our area of operations. I had marked the map with places to see, hike, etc. First the town, Highlands is a Bugie place, my daughter taught me a new word. If you didnt know better, the town was sponsored by Lexus and Range Rover, with a few Bentleys and Ferraris to fill the fun. Restaurants can be out there expensive, but we found enough "mountain" expensive and with very good food. Lots of shopping downtown, we didn't see overpriced crap, mostly within normal range of Amazon (yes, I checked in the store!).
It is a very nice town to park and walk around, go into shops, eat, coffee, etc. We did drive on NC64 quite a bit to go places on hikes, or explore. We did encounter the most dangerous animal in the area, totally fearless and could take your life in a second; middle age women racing on Lexus RX's on the mountain roads. They would challenge Lewis Hamilton in the rain, pretty amazingly stupid.
There is a high end market in Higlands where water is milked from organically grown clouds and served in Tiffani glasses. But there was an Ingles Market down the road in Cashiers. We had to try the first one at least once. Thats some good tasting water. We explored the forest roads around town, nothing special from a driving perspective, but great walking the dogs on these lanes. There are nice campsites on the South entrance to Glenn Falls, all dirt road driving.
The house was pretty comfortable, AC didnt work first day but got fixed the next.
Back porch, South views into GA mountains
Alarm system distributed in the house for black bear intrusions (owner was very worried about it)
