A community as beautiful as The Headwaters deserves to be built upon using architectural designers and craftsmen of world-class stature.

You will not see a brick or stucco home on the slopes of The Headwaters—it just wouldn’t be right. There is no comparison to a home built using hand hewn timbers, stone and shingles, not to mention the fine craftsmanship evident in timber frame construction.

We will help you get connected to the right folks that will make your mountain home dreams become a reality. Or if you prefer, bring your own architect and floor plans to build from a design that is uniquely you.

For more about The Headwaters at Banner Elk, visit www.headwatersnc.com or call us today at 866.200.3290 to schedule a private tour!

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After a successful summer of Mountain Biking and Mountain Boarding, Beech Mountain Resort is looking forward to the new ski season. There have been exciting projects this summer and the attention to detail has remained a major focus for the entire staff.

We have made significant improvements in snowmaking and have continued to adjust Beech Tree Village for customer convenience. Some of the major improvements for this year are the completion of the Oz Quad Chair, a Private Season Locker Room, new upgrades to the Group Sales Area, a second Retail Shop in the View Haus Cafeteria and the completion of the new freestyle terrain area.

Beech Mountain Resort is scheduled to open on Saturday, November 21 2009 and operate until Sunday, March 14 2010.

For more, visit: http://www.skibeech.com

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The First Annual Banner Elk Downtown Get Down is scheduled for this Sunday, October 25th from 1:00pm until dark!

Already being affectionately referred to as “the festivus for the rest of us”, citizens of Banner Elk are banding together to help a community member in need and bring some great music and fun to the High Country.  What started as discussions about the best way to assist a friend who must undergo a kidney transplant has grown into what they hope will be an annual music festival for the locals.  On Sunday, October 25th everyone in the High Country is invited to the Banner Elk Town Park for the “Downtown Get Down”.  

Donating food for the event are Artisinal Restaurant, The Bayou Smokehouse, Stonewall’s, Sorrento’s, Bellas, Pappy’s and The Hearthstone Tavern & Grille.  The silent auction will include items from Beech Mountain, Sugar Mountain, Ski Country Sports, Pepper’s, Crippen’s Country Inn and Restaurant, Makoto’s, The Best Cellar at the Inn at Ragged Garden, Peabody’s Wine and Beer Merchants, Finders Keepers, Savory Thymes, Erick’s Cheese and Wine, The Louisiana Purchase, The Best Western Mountain Lodge, The 1906 Pine Crest Inn, Dereka’s Sugar Mountain Accommodations,  and Elk River Country Club.

The festivities will begin at 1:00 pm and continue on until dark, or maybe a little later (the event is planned to run until 6pm but if the weather is nice and we’re all having a blast, we may stay until 10pm).  There will be face painting and other activities for the kiddies as well as a great playground already available.  The organizers ask that you not bring coolers as the music is free and the money being raised will come solely from the sale of food, drink, t-shirts and the silent auction. 

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Be sure to come by for a visit when you’re in town Downtown Get Down in Banner Elk!

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• - 915 acres adjoining the Pisgah National Forest and Cherokee National Forest.
• - Home sites from one to four acres.
• - Majority of mountainside building sites face south and southwest.
• - 70% of all building sites have long-range mountain views. The view eastward reaches 5 miles to Grandfather Mountain and beyond, south 5 miles to Roan Mountain, and 40 mile views across Tennessee.
• - Established protective covenants encourage mountain style construction, including: timber frame, post & beam, craftsman style, log and cottage styles.
• Easily accessible via state maintained paved roads.
• Underground utilities.
• Elevations ranging from 3100 to nearly 3900 feet above sea level.
• Numerous streams and waterfalls feeding the Elk River located throughout the property.
• Two cold water fishing lakes.

If you would like more details on our site plan, please view our Interactive Site Plan application. Note: you will need Adobe’s Flash Player to view our Interactive Site Plan application.

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Named One Of The Top Ten Fall Festivals in North America by the Society of American Travel Writers!

The Wooly Worm Festival is October 17th, 2009!

Back in the late 1970s, the editor of the now-defunct Mountain Living Magazine, Jim Morton, was preparing to include a Woolly Worm Forecast in the winter issue of the magazine. He photographed the first Woolly Worm he saw to use in formulating the prediction and illustrating his story, but the next day he saw a second worm that looked completely different from the first.

“That’s when it struck me that we needed some formal procedure to use to decide which was going to be the official worm for making the winter forecast,” said Morton.

So since 1978, the residents of the village nestled between the Carolina’s two largest ski resorts have celebrated the coming of the snow season with a Woolly Worm Festival. They set aside the third weekend in October  to determine which one worm will have the honor of predicting the severity of the coming winter; and they make that worm earn the honor by winning heat after heat of hard-fought races - up a three-foot length of string.

For more information on the festival CLICK HERE! 

Be sure to come by for a visit when you’re in town for The Woolly Worm Festival!

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Banner Elk and surrounding areas offer a quality of life that is sought by many folks today . . .  a beautiful mountain retreat away from the busy crowds where one can still have access to the finer conveniences found in larger metropolitan areas. We invite you to come and Discover the Spirit of Mountain Living in The Headwaters of Banner Elk, situated right in the heart of the North Carolina High Country, just ten minutes from downtown.

Drive time from Charlotte, NC is just over 2 hours. We’re also only 2 hours from Winston-Salem and Greensboro, NC and just under 4 hours from Raleigh, NC.

Banner Elk itself, is a quaint mountain town located 30 minutes from Boone, home to Appalachian State University. This beautiful Avery County setting is surrounded by some of the highest mountains east of the Rockies including Grandfather Mountain and Beech Mountain. The Blue Ridge Parkway traverses the county just six miles from town.

Banner Elk is home to Lees McRae College and features a lively arts and crafts cultural scene, complete with an intimate pedestrian shopping district of upscale boutiques and outstanding restaurants, several of which are regularly featured in national travel and food magazines.

With four distinct seasons, Banner Elk offers a wonderful year-round climate. Spring blossoms beautifully with rhododendron and mountain laurel. Summer features sunny days for outdoor activities and cool evenings for relaxation. Fall bursts forth in a palette of brilliant colors while Winter provides skiing and cozy nights by the fireside.

The higher elevations of this region make for cooler summer temperatures. In fact, Avery County’s seat, the town of Newland, and neighboring Beech Mountain are the highest county seat and incorporated town, respectively, in the eastern United States. Don’t be fooled by other mountain towns that claim cool summers but have lower elevations. If you are looking for cooler summer temperatures, you can’t do any better than the High Country, home to The Headwaters. That’s why its called “The High Country.”

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With six community parks, two lakes, miles of professionally built trails and a mountaintop clubhouse unequaled elsewhere, it is understandable why The Headwaters continues to set the standard by which other communities in Banner Elk, North Carolina are compared. All the amenities and infrastructure are in place along with more than two dozen custom homes, condominium villas and cottages. These North Carolina mountain properties are reasonably priced as well, which probably explains why The Headwaters is the top selling planned community in Banner Elk.

At The Headwaters, you will find a broad range of property offerings. You are certain to find something in your style and price point. Of course with any property purchase, owners have full access to all of the wonderful amenities at Headwaters as well.

Types of NC mountain properties:

· If you wish to build your dream home, we have many unique home sites ranging from just over one acre to four acres and average around two acres. They are priced from $159,000 to the low $300’s with an average price in the low $200’s. Most of the homesites have a south/southwest orientation.

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On Saturday, September 12, Grandfather Mountain will gear up for another exciting Kidfest. This event is designed to provide kids with their very own day at Grandfather and get them excited about the nature and culture of the North Carolina mountains.

The day will kick off with a guided hike at the Woods Walk trail with Naturalist Jesse Pope. At 9:00 a.m. Pope will share some exciting secrets about the inhabitants of the forest at Grandfather Mountain.

At 10:00 a.m. a guest from the Watauga County Library is scheduled to share interesting stories about nature, animals and mountain culture. Craft time follows with a nature craft relating to the books that were read.

The Blue Ridge Wildlife Institute introduces Birds of the Blue Ridge at 11:00 a.m. The demonstration is in the Nature Museum and is led by Nina Fischesser. Fischesser teaches children about the personalities and habits of hawks, owls and other feathered creatures of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

For more information, visit the page on Grandfather.com!

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236 Stacked Rock Road
Fantastic custom home with long range southern views at the end of the road. You can listen to Falls Creek and the Falls Creek Waterfall from the decks. 

Large great room with two story stone fire place.  Master on Main Level with great bath.  Two bedrooms up, each with private bath.  Huge bonus room over garage can easily be made into fourth bedroom and bath.  Lower level features 1,600 s.f. of partially finished space and lower deck. 

Exterior finished with stone, Poplar Bark and true board and batten siding.

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