Guides
10 long-form guides to Blue Ridge, each one signed and dated so you can see how current it is. They answer the questions that do not fit on a listings page: how the place is laid out, what you will actually be charged for, and which trade-offs are worth making.
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Colour here is a function of height, not of the calendar. The county spans about 2,300 feet of elevation and the change comes downhill over roughly three weeks.
Colour here is a function of height, not of the calendar. The county spans about 2,300 feet of elevation and the change comes downhill over roughly three weeks.
7 min readWyatt Ledford
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Four schedules decide what you can do here, and none of them is the weather: the railway season, the picking calendar, the dam releases and the lake drawdown.
7 min readWyatt Ledford
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The driveway is steeper than the photograph, the signal goes a mile before the gate, and the wood stove wants seasoned wood. What a cabin weekend in Fannin County actually involves.
9 min readDarlene Pickett
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Twenty-six miles up the Toccoa and back, with two hours on the Georgia-Tennessee line in the middle. The choices that matter are made at booking, not at the depot.
7 min readDarlene Pickett
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Two nights, one big thing per day, and a grocery stop before the last winding miles. An itinerary built around how long the driving actually takes.
6 min readDarlene Pickett
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A town of 1,250 people, a county where nine in ten residents live outside any town at all, and three centres that point in three different directions. Here is how it fits together.
6 min readDarlene Pickett
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A family orchard since 1943, over forty apple varieties, and the busiest car park in Fannin County by lunchtime in October. What is ripe when, and when to turn up.
6 min readNadine Colquitt
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The walks are short. The gravel roads that reach them are not, and that is what actually decides your afternoon. What each waterfall is really like, and how to get there.
6 min readWyatt Ledford
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Nearly everything free in Fannin County is free at the point of use and costs you a tank of fuel and forty minutes of gravel. Here is what is worth that trade.
6 min readWyatt Ledford
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The train is perfect at four and hard work at two. The orchard is a triumph at nine in the morning and a disaster at one. A family guide organised by age rather than by attraction.
6 min readNadine Colquitt
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