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Whether you are a long time resident or new to the area, you’ll find local & regional events, destinations and experiences in the Destination Magazine™ that will give you memories for a lifetime The Destination Magazine™ is about new destinations and experiences to discover on your own, or outings with friends and family. We hope you will find a new memorable experience ever y month in the Destination Magazine™ .

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Contents DayTrip Destinations 5 Must-Stop Spots Along The Catawba River Blueway

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Kick The Winter Blues In Stokes! 12 Get A Free Guide To The Summer Camp Capital Of The South 14

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Pigs, Pickles And Planes This April In Goldsboro

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Grandfather Mountain Announces 2019 Schedule Of Events

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Cast Your Line On The Nation’s Only Fly-Fishing Trail

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Mill Rd. Randleman, NC 27317 www.pettys-garage.com Rumba on the Lumber 2019 March 1 5pm–March 3 5pm Downtown at Ch i l i Co o k O f f G re at Ch i l i the Plaza, Lumberton, NC 28358 & G r e a t S p i r i t s S t a r t www.lumberton-nc.com w it h Cle a n Water March 9 , 6pm–9pm Elevated Mountain B i e r e d e Fe m m e Fe s t i v a l D i s t i l l i n g C o m p a n y 3 7 3 2 S a t u r d a y, M a r c h 2 , 2 0 1 9 a t Soco Rd. Maggie Valley, NC 28751 1 p m – 6 p m H i g h l a n d B r e w i n g www.elevatedmountain.com Company 12 Old Charlotte Hwy, Ste 200, Asheville, NC 28803 25th ACC Chili Cook- O f f www.bieredefemmefest.com Mar ch 14, 11am–1:30pm Morganton Community House 120 Sip and Seek Wedding Show Sun- N King St. Morganton, NC 28655 day, March 3, 2019 Historic Rural Hill www.downtownmorganton.com 4431 Neck Rd. Huntersville, NC 28078 www.ruralhill.net Piedmont Legacy Trails Summit 2019 March 15, 8:30am–2:30pm Art & Orchids: Invisible Links Salem Lake Marina 1001 Salem Lake J a n u a r y 2 6 – M a r c h 3 D a n i e l Rd. Winston-Salem, NC www.faceStowe Botanical Garden 6500 S book.com/PiedmontLegacyTrails/ New Hope Rd. Belmont, NC 28012 www.DSBG.org Celtic Festival March 16, 10am– 4pm Historic Latta Plantation 5225 7th Annual Celtic Festival, March Sample Rd. Huntersville, NC 28078 16-17 Historic Latta Plantation 5225 www.lattaplantation.org Sample Rd. Huntersville, NC 28078 www.lattaplantation.org Asheboro Food Truck Rodeo March 16, 12pm–6pm Bicentennial Park 135 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro,

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Destinations NC 27203 US www.Greensboro- Myra’s Friday Night Cruise FoodTruckFestivals.com I n ! 2 0 t h S e a so n ! M a r c h 2 9 , 7pm–9pm Myra’s, 212 Main 2019 G ra nv ille A mbula nce S t r e e t W. Va l d e s e , N C 2 8 6 9 0 Chase & Food Truck Rodeo www.myrasofvaldese.com March 16, 4pm–7pm Oxford Historic District, Oxford, NC www.visitgranvillenc.com 2019 Spring Food Truck Rally March 30, 4pm–8pm Rural Hill, 4431 2019 Gathering of Friends March Neck Rd. Huntersville, NC 28078 22, 11am–March 24, 5pm Moun- www.ruralhill.com tains-to-Sea Trail 3509 Haworth Drive, Suite 210, Raleigh, NC 27609 Wheels Through Time Opening www.mountainstoseatrail.org Day April 4, 9am - 5pm Dale’s Wheels Through Time, 62 Vintage US Open Fat Bike Beach Cham- L n . M a g g i e Va l l e y, N C 2 8 7 5 1 pionship March 23, 1pm–9pm www.wheelsthroughtime.com Blockade Runner Beach Resort 275 Waynick Blvd. Wrightsville Beach, Visit NCTDM.com for the com�NC 28480 www.fatcross.com plete destination calendar from your phone, tablet or desktop.

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5 Must-Stop Spots Along The Catawba River Blueway

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he 27-mile Catawba River River Street Park Blueway is filled with scenic Launch your boat on Dutchmans spots for a paddling adventure. Creek at River Street Park in Mount Holly, where you can eat breakfast Looking for one of the area’s at Mount Holly Grill and get a coffee best float trips? Check out the stretch to go at Catawba Coffee Co. to start of the Catawba River starting just your day. The park has a walking below Mountain Island Lake in North trail, playground, fishing pier, and Carolina and flowing to the border a disc golf course. It’s just a short of South Carolina. You’ll paddle paddle downstream to a right turn peaceful stretches of undeveloped into the Catawba’s main channel to shoreline and see foxes, deer, and pick up the blueway. wild turkeys in the forest. Hawks, heron, and bald eagles will be nest- Tailrace Marina ing in the trees, while turtles sun At the Tailrace Marina, you can themselves on downed logs. rent canoes, kayaks, and stand-up paddleboards.

While the blueway feels remote, you’ll be passing right by some of the About two miles into your trip, best parks, restaurants, and outdoor an island divides the river into two recreation in the region. As a matter channels. Paddle river right to pull of fact, you can eat breakfast near the out at Tailrace Marina for a sandwich launch in downtown Mount Holly, or cocktails on the waterfront deck stop for lunch at the Whitewater at J Peters Grill & Bar. If you don’t Center, and catch the sunset at a have your own boat, you can start craft brewery in Belmont. Combine out at the marina, where they rent a picnic lunch with a distillery tour, single and tandem kayaks, canoes, or camp under the stars at McDowell and stand-up paddleboards.

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Kick The Winter Blues In Stokes!

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ays are getting longer and the local calendar is filled with festivals, events, challenges, and fun experiences to put a little SPRING into your Step as you adventure and explore the mountain peaks and river banks of Stokes County, NC! So much to do around the ROCK this Spring, you’ll need more than a day to take it all in, make plans now to book an extended stay with a Bed & Breakfast, cabin, or vacation rental. Each weekend a show, concert, street festival, cruise in, performance, interactive activity and so much more. An escape to Stokes County is just what’s needed to re-energize and burn off those winter blues.

This month at The Arts Place, in historic downtown Danbury, it’s a must that your weekend include outings to sit back and enjoy a local community theatre show including “Murder Most Fowl” – March 2nd, “Flights of Imagination” – March 9-10th and “End of the Rainbow” honoring Judy Garland – March 30-31st. The next big #ComeHearNC concert with John Cowan and Darin

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and Brooke Aldridge takes the stage on Sunday, March 17th. The ARTS ROCK in Stokes find tickets at www.

StokesArts.org A new challenge helps usher in spring on April 6th as “Friends of Sauratown Mountains” presents the High5 @ Hanging Rock. Be your own champion as you run or hike to the five big summits in Hanging Rock State Park. This is a fun & challenging ten mile outdoor adventure that showcases the natural beauty of one of the best state parks in North Carolina. All proceeds will benefit Hanging Rock and Pilot Mountain State Parks. Registration is $30. Delicious food trucks will be located at the finish line including Papa’s House & Taqueria Luciano’s. Register online at www.high5athangingrock.com

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Tell your friends to Meet you on Main this April as the King Chamber of Commerce kicks off their annual street festival during the evening of April 27th in downtown King, NC. Meander the streets while enjoying a delicious meal from a food truck, as you explore over 75 vendors, and enjoy LIVE music filling the air.

Warmer nights, mean hot cars, tops down and motorcycles. The town of Walnut Cove, NC is bringing back the “Classic Car and Motorcycle

Cruise In” to the streets of downtown on the last Friday of each month starting in April. Head on down after 5pm and watch as cars line the streets, music is provided by Palmetto Theatre each month.

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Get A Free Guide To The Summer Camp Capital Of The South

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One camp charges no tuition and is geared toward children whose families could not otherwise afford The first camp opened in 1910 to send them to camp. and by 1921, the Asheville CitizenTimes dubbed Hendersonville “the Because there are so many center of camps in the South.” options, the Henderson County It remains that way a centur y Tourism Development Authority has later, with 19 camps operating in put together a camp trail guide that Henderson County. Today’s camps provides specific details about each continue to develop self-sufficiency camp and how to get in touch with and maturity in adolescents, while them for more information. educating them about nature and teaching them social skills in a fun, The Henderson County Camp device-free environment.

Trail Guide also provides an extensive list of necessities for packing, as The abundance of camps offers well as a section about which type of options for nearly every child. Some camp is right for your child. camps focus on kids as young as age five, while others accept campers up Over the years, parents and to age 17. There are 10 co-ed camps, family members have added to

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Pigs, Pickles And Planes This April In Goldsboro

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his April, get to Goldsboro where the month kicks off with Pig In The Park on April 5-6th in historical Waynesborough Village, where twenty cook teams will face off in a whole hog BBQ contest, making enough delicious food to satisfy over 5,000 festival goers.

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Hot on its heels is the NC Pickle Festival. Held this year on April 13th in Mount Olive, the 33rd NC Pickle Festival is in a league of its own for pickle enthusiasts. Every year, crowds of thousands turn out to experience the vast array of pickle themed events, from pickle eating contests, to Tour De Pickle (25,53 or 75 mile bike races), and a range of family entertainment. The origins of the NC Pickle Festival rest on the fact that Mount Olive is home to the much loved Mt Olive Pickle Company, now the USA’s largest

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Seymour Johnson AFB in Goldsboro!

Awarded Event of the Year in 2017, the show only happens every other year and is free and open to the public. Goldsboro’s skies will come alive with the world’s most impressive airpower, such as the U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds, F-35 demo team, TORA TORA TORA, and much more.

There’s also plenty on the ground to see and experience for the whole family during this two-day show.

Check out the www.visitgoldsboronc.com for much more information and exciting updates about all three occasions.

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Grandfather Mountain Announces 2019 Schedule Of Events

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i t h 2 0 1 9 u n d e r w a y, Nature Photography Weekend Grandfather Mountain’s May 31-June 2 calendar of events is in Visit Grandfather Mountain to peak condition. attend presentations from top nature photographers, while photographing With a mission to inspire conser- spectacular scener y and native vation of the natural world by help- animals before and after regular ing guests explore, understand and business hours. Additional cost. value the wonders of Grandfather Online registration begins April 1 at Mountain, the nonprofit nature park grandfather.com. and its staff are readying for a fun and eventful year.

The Remarkable Rhododendron “2019 is going to be an incredible year on Grandfather Mountain,” said Frank Ruggiero, director of marketing and communications for the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates the park.

“Our schedule is packed with special events, all of them bridging education with outdoor fun, while allowing us to share the wonders of Grandfather Mountain with guests of all ages.”

With a few exceptions where noted, most special events are included with park admission. Additional events will be announced and posted on www.grandfather.com.

Ramble June 1-8

From June 1-7, a series of 20-minute walks will highlight Grandfather Mountain’s rhododendron species and blooms. On June 8, guests can meet the park’s naturalists at the Nature Museum to obtain a map and information on where to find the most beautiful blooms, with special programming throughout the day highlighting this High Country jewel.

64th Grandfather Mountain Highland Games July 11-14

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Celebrating a one of a kind dessert found in Surry County, North Carolina

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highland setting make this colorful celebration of Scottish culture one of the most highly acclaimed games in the country. Additional cost. For more information, visit www.gmhg.org.

Animal Enrichment Day Wednesday, Aug. 7

Enrichment is an integral part of how the mountain cares for its habitat animals every day. An enrichment is a special treat, new toy or even an unfamiliar scent given to the animals to break up their routines and help keep them active and intellectually stimulated. Visitors can enjoy watching enrichment demonstrations, talk directly with keepers and participate in family-oriented games and crafts.

Top photographers gather at Grandfather Mountain to present on the nuts and bolts of making good photographs. This event is free to working members of the press, with an additional cost for nonpress professionals and amateurs.

Online registration begins July 15 at grandfather.com.

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Cast Your Line On The Nation’s Only Fly-Fishing Trail

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ith more than 3,000 miles of trout streams a n d 1,10 0 m i l e s o f hatcher y-supported trout waters in the mounta ins a lone, Nor th Ca rolina is a f ly-f ishing haven.

It’s a lso t he on l y place i n t he n a t i o n w i t h a d e s i g n a te d f l yfishing trail. The Western North Carolina Fly Fishing Trail takes anglers to 15 prime spots in the Great Smoky Mountains to catch trout. Sites feature a variet y of options ranging from wideopen rivers to sma ll, secluded s t r e a m s . T h e t r a i l ’s w e b s i t e a lso include s helpful link s on l i c en si n g, g u i de s e r v i c e s a nd places to stay for visitors ready to ta ke to t he water. T he t ra il was designed by t wo outdoorsmen and f ly-fishing guides. Fly f i shi n g i s popula r t h rou ghout t h e m o u n t a i n s a n d fo o t h i l l s .

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Four Great Places For A Destination Wedding In Yadkin Valley

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ow that engagement season has passed, bridesto -be are planning their dream weddings. The rolling hills of Surr y County in the Yadkin Valley wine region create a beautiful setting for such occasions.

While many venues throughout Surry County are ideal for weddings, these four places stand out when brides choose to hold their special day in wine country.

The Barn at Heritage Farm in the countryside outside Dobson sits on property that has been in the same family for six generations. A recent renovation transformed it to 10,000-square-foot showplace for weddings for up to 500 guests. Better yet, it is across the road from Shelton Vineyards, the largest family-owned estate winery in North Carolina, and works closely with the winery.

From its hilltop perch, The Barn at Heritage Farm has a sweeping view of surrounding mountains, including the landmark knob atop Pilot Mountain.

JOLO Winer y & Vineyards in Pilot Mountain is a boutique winery with an upscale atmosphere. A gazebo overlooking Pilot Mountain is a natural spot for ceremonies, while the large pavilion is popular for receptions. In-house catering and event specialists work with couples to personalize their perfect day, and there is an ultra-luxurious honeymoon suite on property.

For those looking for a downtown experience, Coley Hall at The Liberty is an industrial-chic venue on Elkin’s Main Street. Once home to a tobacco warehouse, Coley Hall has exposed brick walls, century-old overhead beams and hardwood floors smoothed by decades of footsteps. The distinctive architecture allows brides to keep things simple by letting the building’s character show through.

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Across the river from Tailrace Marina, a second, narrower river channel leads to the dock at the U.S. National Whitewater Center.

Allow a few hours to pull out on the sandy shoreline, hike up the trail to the activity center and restaurant, and enjoy everything USNWC has Riverside Marina to offer. Go rafting on the manT h e Yo r k C h e s t e r B r e w i n g made whitewater river, or climbing, Company is a great stopping point mountain biking, and ziplining on in Belmont.

1,300 acres of forested trails.

Not only can you rent kayaks and Need a break before you get back SUP boards at Riverside Marina, but on the river? Relax on the lawn with you can also take a distillery tour and a craft beer from the Pump House sample Belmont’s craft beer scene Biergarten and lunch from the while you’re there. Up the hill from River’s Edge Grill while you watch the marina is the former Spectrum whitewater kayakers play in the class Dye Mill, which was renovated to II-IV rapids. Another alternative to house North Carolina’s first rum consider is planning your paddle trip distiller y, Muddy River Distiller y. around more than 50 races, concerts, Sample their signature oak barreloutdoor films, and festivals that the aged Queen Charlotte’s Reserve rum center hosts throughout the year. during your tour, then head around the corner for a pint of craft beer on Kevin Loftin Riverfront Park the deck at York Chester Brewing You’ll find a massive pier with an Company.

ADA-accessible launch site at Kevin Loftin Riverfront Park.

You can’t miss the pier and boat launch at Kevin Loftin Riverfront Park on river right as you paddle down the Catawba into the Town of Belmont. The playground and picnic shelters sit up on the top of a bluff overlooking the river as it widens and flows into Lake Wylie. There’s an ADA-accessible kayak and canoe launch at the park, and the pier is a great place to pull ashore and drop your fishing line from the floating dock.

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Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner Boat Slips Available!

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APRIL 13th Join us for the 33rd annual NC Pickle Festival in Mount Olive.

Pickle eating contest, Tour De Pickle Ride, family entertainment and much more.

It’s dill-ightful!

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eda loni Cella rs re st s on twenty-two acres of rolling hills located in North Carolina’s beautiful Yadkin Valley.

Located 10 minutes outside of Winston-Salem, Medaloni Cellars is a beautiful addition to the Yadkin Valley wine trail to be toured by wine lovers from all over.

Enjoy a romantic sunset with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains as you sip on a glass of elegant Medaloni Cellars wine. We even have cabins available for rent! A perfect, sweet get away for two!

One such cabin is Chateau Bergeron, a lovely one bedroom cabin which includes a queen size bed, full bathroom including a shower for two, living space with fireplace, microwave, mini fridge, Kuerig Coffee Maker. This cabin also includes a complimentar y bottle of Medaloni Cellars wine and two Medaloni Cellars glasses for you to keep. Sit on the front porch and sip wine and watch the sunset!

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Come out to taste, relax, enjoy and stay!

Medaloni Cellars is located in the heart of Yadkin Valley at 9125 Shallowford Road in Lewisville, North Carolina. www.medalonicellars.com

Ghostface Brewing Offers up to 20 beers, ciders & meads on tap, with a selection of rotating styles, some available on nitro. Wine available and Davidson Pizza Company is located right in the tasting room.

427 East Statesville Ave. Mooresville, NC 28115 704.799.7433 – www.ghostfacebrewing.com the

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Grandfather Mountain 2019

Beary Scary Halloween

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Saturday, Oct. 26

Visit Grandfather Mountain for a day of nature programs about animals considered creepy and crawly!

Creatures of the Night & This fun-filled celebration includes Bonfire Delight an opportunity to create special HalSaturday, Sept. 21 loween enrichments for the animals As night falls on Grandfather and then trick-or-treat through the Mountain, guests can enjoy rare animal habitats area. Plus, children after-dark tours, fireside tales and a in costume are admitted at half-price. chance to meet the park’s nocturnal residents. Additional cost. Limited to And More 48 participants. Registration opens Grandfather Mountain will Aug. 26. at grandfather.com. add additional events to its lineup throughout the year, including the The Fall Color Ramble Grandfather Presents summer Oct. 1-12 evening lecture series, adult field From Oct. 1-11, guests can courses, daily programs, night hikes enjoy 20-minute guided walks that and more. highlight Grandfather Mountain’s fall colors. On Oct. 12, guests can The not-for-profit Grandfather Mountain Stewardship meet the park’s naturalists at the Foundation strives to inspire Nature Museum to obtain a map conservation of the natural and information on where to find world by helping guests explore, understand and value the most beautiful fall color. Plus, the wonders of Grandfather special programming throughout the Mountain. For more information, day will allow families to explore the call 800-468-7325, or visit www. grandfather.com to plan a trip. natural phenomenon. permitting.

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