Our writers
Who writes this
Everything published about Blue Ridge on this site carries a name. Here is who those names belong to, what each of them covers, and how to read everything they have written.
Darlene Pickett
Senior Editor
Beat: Things to Do, Cabin Rentals, Downtown
Darlene has written about north Georgia's mountain counties for fourteen years and runs this desk. She owns the pages where a wrong detail costs somebody a day: the railway's published season, what is shut in February, which local claim is a claim rather than a fact. She quotes prices as bands, and says plainly when a number is unconfirmed.
4 guides · 3 news posts
Wyatt Ledford
Trails & Rivers Editor
Beat: Things to Do, Hiking & Waterfalls, Best Time to Visit
Wyatt grew up fishing the Toccoa tailwater and still checks the generation schedule before he checks the forecast. He covers the Aska trails, the Benton MacKaye, the waterfall routes and the lake, and he is blunt about gravel grades, rutted Forest Service roads and water that rises faster than people expect. If a bridge is closed, he says so.
4 guides · 4 news posts
Nadine Colquitt
Food & Farms Editor
Beat: With Kids, Things to Do, Orchards & Farms
Nadine covers the orchard rows, the cider house, the tasting rooms and the kitchens on Main Street. She tracks what is actually ripe rather than what a brochure printed in spring, tells you which weekend the u-pick blocks will be shoulder to shoulder, and would rather warn you a kitchen is small than let you turn up with six people.
2 guides · 1 news post
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