Deena Bouknight

Buck Creek is a favorite fall and winter hike, offering scenic stream views, waterfalls, and plenty of room for dogs to explore.

Glen Falls offers a refreshed two‑mile hike featuring Upper, Middle, and Lower Glen Falls, with recent volunteer improvements and especially vivid autumn scenery along its rocky, 500‑foot descent.

This sweeping climb rewards hikers with rich forest life, steady elevation, and some of Western North Carolina’s most expansive mountain views.

Cashiers Historical Society’s 29th Annual Designer Showhouse runs August 28 through September 5, highlighting the work of designers from Cashiers and Highlands alongside creatives from across the region.

Standing Indian blends Cherokee legend, sweeping Appalachian Trail views, and easy access into one rewarding half‑day hike.

From August 28–September 5, the Cashiers Designer Showhouse welcomes guests to a modern mountain home at Cashiers Lake, showcasing the work of 13 designers whose creativity supports the mission of the Cashiers Historical Society.

Highlands native Alex Osteen turned a Peace Corps assignment in Honduras into Highlander Farms Coffee, a mission‑driven venture that supports a community
he now considers family.

If Jim Chance and the Southern Blue Ridge Hikers nonprofit have anything to do with it, someday the Blue Ridge Connector Regional Trail will link the mountain communities of Clayton, Highlands and Cashiers by foot.

It is ultimately because of my grandmother, Madeleine Gertrude Weishoff Van de Walker, who passed in 2001 at age 93, that I now live in the area. She and my […]