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Visit Highlands, NC: the Lookbook
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: March-2022
The Highlands Chamber of Commerce makes a beautiful, impassioned pitch for the natural wonders of life on the Plateau.
If you’re captivated by Highlands magic, surrender to its panoramas of mountain trails, rivers, cliffs, towering falls, and rocky ridges. These wonders are wrapped in a temperate rainforest, hand-crafted by the world’s best exterior designer, Mother Nature.
Highlanders swear she outdid herself on the Plateau.
If this is a day when you can’t get out to trek on your own two feet, let your eyes do the walking through Visit Highlands, NC/Highlands Chamber 2022 Experience Guide and visithighlands.com, both loaded with award-winning photos.
Get ready to be visually wowed.
While wandering the picturesque photo of trails, sneak some time to spy on its animal dwellers. Explore the fliers, (birds and pollinators), the slither-ers (snakes, lizards, and salamanders), and lumber-ers (the iconic bears).
As you peruse the snapshots, you’re bound to catch a glimpse of a creature or two grazing on Nantahala’s dining table, the forest floor. Or creatures wandering through dappled light, playing their part in keeping the wheel of environmental balance turning.
At night the nocturnals (bobcats, raccoons, bats, barred owls, bullfrogs, white-tailed deer, foxes, and more) are heard more than seen. But if you are an adventurer, contact the Highlands Biological Station for a summer Salamander Meander, the Highlands Land Trust for a hike in protected forest, or explore the Highlands Greenway on your own.
If you are a birder, you are under the friendly skies of migrating and resident songbirds and birds-of-prey. A Birding Bonanza is held annually, as bird-fanciers take note-and-number of every beak and birdie that flies over their backyard. To learn more, contact the Highlands Audubon Society.
Highlands is a home and retreat for mindful, passionate, humanitarian residents and visitors. It’s a delight to be one thread amongst many who weave a balanced community for all its occupants.
If you need a bit more wowing, go ahead and visit the Welcome Center at 108 Main Street or visithighlandsnc.com to see what the photo-aficionados have captured for your tour of our beautiful land that we and Mother Nature call home. Better yet, put your boots on and walk one of Highlands well-worn trails – and don’t come home ‘til the cows do.
