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NC SC Take Flight on the Ridgeline Craft Beverage Trail Take the tour some of the tastiest crafted beverages in North Carolina. Located in both Cleveland and Gaston County the trail features breweries, wineries and a rum distillery.

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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

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Lakefront Hops Festival @Langtree Take Two

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A Perfect Way To Taste Your Way In Gaston And Cleveland

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North Carolina’s Musical Treasure: Eastern Music Festival

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Combo Climbing Gym And Bike Park Opens Near Hendersonville

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Carolina Craft Passport Digital Passport To Artisain Destinations

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Tobacco Wood Brewing Company

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Craft Beer, Now Brewed Locally In Stokes

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Lakefront Hops Festival @Langtree Take Two

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oin us for the Lakefront Hops Fest to support the Ace & TJ’s Grin Kids. With Great Bands, Regional Breweries, a Cigar Tent, Local Cider Tent, Wine Tent, Tito’s Tent, Great Food Vendors, Style Trucks, Kids Zone, and more. The event is hosted by Sun Up Cafe & The Kilted Buffalo Langtree at LangTree Lake Norman. The April date has been bumped back to later in the year, not canceled. So please keep an eye out right here for the new date.

Another delayed date of note is the opening of the Kilted Buffalo Plaza Midwood! KB pushed the date back a few weeks to make sure we have plenty of time to get things just right. The new date is June 6th

for the Offical Grand Opening Plaza Midwood Kilted Buffalo.

Stop by and enjoy over 100 beers on tap and check out these two new murals that Philip Williams has created for the Kilted Buffalo Plaza Midwood.

Plaza Midwood Kilted Buffalo 1212 Central Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204 www.thekiltedbuffalo.com

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A Perfect Way To Taste Your Way In Gaston And Cleveland

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hether you’re in the Charlotte area or throughout North Carolina, explore the Ridgeline Craft Beverage Trail.

If you or your group enjoy visiting a mix of wineries, breweries, and distilleries, then the Ridgeline Craft Beverage Trail is perfect for you!

Baker Buffalo Creek Vineyard and Winery offers the whole package — from special events to tastings.

Part of the Ridgeline Craft Beverage Trail, Baker Buffalo Creek Vineyard is the only winery to offer a dozen wines to taste. With an iconic red barn (Hickory Farms even used it in its advertising!) the grounds of this beautiful winery provide the perfect respite from our fast-paced lives.

Relax in an Adirondack chair under some trees while sipping your glass of wine. It quickly becomes evident why so many couples choose this special place to exchange their vows.

offers a wine tasting flight – three 3 oz glasses of your choice for $12.

Veronét also offers some of the fanciest charcuterie plates I’ve ever seen. The magnificent charcuterie plate contains two types of cheeses, three types of cured meats, crackers, dried apricots, mixed nuts, drunken L ooking for a vineyard with tomatoes, apples, strawberries, refined wines and sweeping views? whole grain mustard and fig spread .

Then Veronét is just what you’re looking for! The newest addition Opening in 2014, Ole Dallas to the Ridgeline Craft Beverage Brewery serves as a local gathering Trail, Veronet opened its doors in spot in Gaston County. Their menu the fall of 2019. Currently serving includes four flagship beers: Pale eight different wines, Veronét Rebel Y’Ale (an American pale ale),

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Cross Roads IPA (a citrusy IPA), food is pretty spectacular. They Wildcat Wit (a Belgian specialty), even have a kids menu! and Ole George’s Porter (a fullbodied ale). And if you like unusual Do you prefer rum over beer and beers, try the Jalapeñ Yo Face. wine? Then a visit to Muddy River Distillery is for you! As the oldest leThe only brewery in Cleveland gal rum distillery in the state, Muddy County, Newgrass Brewing Com- River opened its doors in 2011. The pany brought craft beer to the distillery began in an old textile mill Uptown Shelby area. Located in that the owners found on Craigslist. the former Hudson’s Department With their initial success, the two Store, Newgrass features local owners ended up leaving their fullfarm products in their tasty craft time jobs two years later. Robbie and beer and food. And, of course, Caroline Delaney invested their own the brewer y preser ved the strong money and time, with the help of bluegrass roots of the area – their Continued On Page 30 logo is an upside-down beer b o t t l e t h a t l o o k s l i k e a s t r i n g Gaston County offers visitors a instrument neck. Grab a beer and variety of attractions to enhance enjoy live music most weekends, your trip including museums, botanical gardens, extreme or enjoy your pint in their outdoor sports, hiking, dining and beer garden. Fostering a family- entertainment parks, art and friendly atmosphere, not only can history and more. www.gogaston.org you drink your beer here, but the

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North Carolina’s Musical Treasure: Eastern Music Festival

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astern Music Festival (EMF), Greensboro’s nationally recognized classical music festival and summer educational program, returns June 27 through August 1, 2020, for a season of Classics Reimagined. For nearly six decades each summer, extraordinary musicians from around the world gather in Greensboro bringing their talents to perform the works of the great masters, past and present. Days and nights at EMF are filled with the echoes of music across of the campus of Guilford College. Hundreds of Young Artists practice, perform, and strive for musical excellence; teachers guide and encourage the students; and world-class guest artists and mentors share their talents and wisdom. Stages are graced with virtuosos on every instrument, performing solo works, chamber music, and the gems of the classical orchestral repertoire. For five weeks, the community is abuzz with the sounds that are EMF. The 2020 season of Classics Reimagined includes 65+ performances by three symphonies, faculty and

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young artists chamber ensembles, and appearances by noted guest artists at its home location at Guilford College and other locations in Greensboro, across the Triad, and Boone, North Carolina. Over six centuries of compositions will be studied and performed during the five week Festival, including three world premieres, one U.S. premiere, several works by award-winning American composer and visiting guest artist Lowell Liebermann, and several performances of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven celebrating the 250 anniversary of the master composer’s birth. Featured Continued On Page 30 Eastern Music Festival is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

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Combo Climbing Gym And Bike Park Opens Near Hendersonville

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he Riveter, North Carolina’s for folks visiting the Blue Ridge first indoor climbing gym and Mountains. bike park, opened this spring in the Western Nor th C a rolina “We’re delighted to have such a mountains near Hendersonville. unique attraction here in Henderson County,” says county tourism direcThis unique facility brings out- tor Beth Carden. “Our mountains are door adventure indoors with 16,000 known for outdoor recreation and square feet of climate-controlled this fits in nicely.” climbing terrain, coupled with an 18,000-square-foot bike park The Riveter is open seven days underneath an all-weather canopy. a week, 52 weeks a year, providing daily activities for visitors regardless The indoor portion of The Riveter of the weather. It is also familyalso includes a yoga studio, meeting friendly, with children and adults space, libation station and retail enjoying the climbing walls and shop. The facility is surrounded by bike trails. an outdoor set of progressive flow line biking trails, all part of a 10-acre Yoga classes, biking clinics and sustainable working farm in the Mills climbing clinics are available on a River section of Henderson County. regular basis. Visitors may bring their own climbing and biking equipment, “This is not just a climbing gym or rent it on site. and this is not just a bike park,” says co-owner Elizabeth Jackson said.

A day pass is $20 for adults and $18 “This is a community built around our for children 18 and under. For more mutual love for outdoor adventure.” info, visit: www.RiveterNC.com The facility is less than a mile from the popular Sierra Nevada Brewer y, and local officials are excited to add another attraction

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re you daydreaming about the time you can get back out on the road to find new destinations to perk your pallet and soothe your soul?

verify that you were there. The craft passport is a digital passport with a digital stamp. When you arrive at a destination listed in the passport, you are sent a four-digit code that you enter into your passport. No handing If you find it challenging to stay the phone to a stranger, you do not at home, but you want to do what’s have to enter the building to receive best for the country, we have a sug- your code. gestion. The Carolina Craft Passport is a digital passport to guide you to I’m sure you read something craft beverage trails and artisan des- about a reward. Well, here it comes! tinations throughout North Carolina. You collect stamps to redeem them for rewards! That simple!

Breweries, wineries, and distill- Visit the Craft Passport website eries are deemed essential by the CraftPassport.app for more informastate. In fact, some of the restrictions tion and to download the app. on purchasing beverages have been lifted!

The Craft Passport will guide you to some of the smaller craft producers around the state, the kind of place the person bringing your purchase to you is most likely the artisan who created it!

What else does the passport do?

Like most passports, when you visit a destination, you receive a stamp to

The Carolina Craft Passport is a reward program to nudge you to get off the well worn path and experience boutique craft beverage destinations across the region.

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Tobacco Wood Brewing Company

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elcome to Tobacco Wood Brewing Company – the f irst woma n-vetera n owned brewery in North Carolina.

U.S. Army vet Mara Shelton, known is the “CO” of the brewery and runs the place with her husband Paul.

Taking a nod from public beer houses in England, Tobacco Wood is less a bar and more of a gathering place. It is not unusual to see children playing oversized Connect Four and other board games while their parents finish their meal and have a casual glass of beer. Little league teams (some sponsored by the brewery) come in after games.

air and the brews fill the glasses.

From citrus infused beers to more robust options such as the Kilted Eddie the options are wide and the popularity is growing. And not just with the patrons. Tobacco Wood recently returned from the Carolinas Championship of Beer after having SEVEN of its beers win awards, and The NC Brewer’s Cup, taking a silver in Amber Ales for the entire state.

“We looked at a number of communities before selecting Oxford,” explains Mara, “ We chose here because of the people and the beautiful downtown which has endless potential. Our mission is to not just to have a business, but to contribute to the charm and growth of Oxford.”

Put it all together and you have a uniquely fun, award-winning brewer y that has grown from a simple garage to what many now consider Oxford’s front porch.

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While the atmosphere is inviting, make no mistake, the food and brews are the draw. The aroma from the BBQ pit fills the downtown

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hile our mantra has always been to “Visit Goldsboro�, the escalation of the COVID-19 (Coronovirus) situation has caused us to press the pause button, encourage folks to reduce their social interactions, and invite you to visit Goldsboro soon. The situation changes every day, but our priority remains the same to put the health and safety of our visitors and residents first. Like many destinations across the world, our lodging facilities, attractions, venues, and event organizers are taking a direct impact due to the efforts to control the spread of the virus. Although it is tough to watch our tourism partners struggle with cancellations, reduced hours, and having to furlough and even layoff positions, we write to remind our visitors and residents that Goldsboro-Wayne County is no stranger to hard times. In the face of natural disasters and economic uncertainty, we have always been a resilient destination ready to come together. For now, we must stay strong physically and mentally by following the guidance set by the Center for Disease Control, and when the time comes, we’ll be healthy and ready to come together again.

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The full event listing on our site is temporarily down until further notice, but contains helpful links and resources for our residents and visitors.

Finally, just as important as it is to stay healthy, it’s important to remain optimistic that it’s a short matter of people or more throughout the United time before we invite you to visit States. Below is a list of major events Goldsboro soon. that have cancelled or postponed until Ashlin Glatthar, Director further notice.

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3/28 Fremont Daffodil Festival- cancelled 4/4 Pig in the Park- postponed, new date coming soon 4/18 Greater Goldsboro Road Run- postponed, new date coming soon 4/25 N.C. Pickle Festival- cancelled 5/2 Three Eagles Beer & Wine Festival- cancelled

Nestled in the heart of eastern NC between Raleigh and the coast, we are a destination with rich culture and heritage.

Our heritage has deep military and agricultural roots. And, let’s not forget to mention our legendary BBQ! We sum up ourselves with 4 Ps: pigs, pickles, planes, and poultry! www.visitgoldsboronc.com

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e are excited to have you joi n us Au gust 15 -16, 2020 as we present Highland Athletics, Dance, and Bagpipe & Dr um competitions, historic encampment, back country farm, merchant vendors, whisky tastings, haggis and other Scottish foods, and so much more!

automatically will be transferred to the new date. If you are unable to make the new date, let us know and we will reserve your place for the 2021 Loch Norman Highland Games.

And speaking of: mark your calendars for April 17th-18th, 2021 because we will be back to our regular dates.

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performers this season include violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (July 1), cellist Lynn Harrell (July 18), pianist Alexander Toradze, and guitarist Jason Vieaux. Award-winning maestro Gerard Schwarz conducts the Eastern Festival Orchestra and other EMF ensembles throughout the season.

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A Google map at www.thecommontraveler.net listsall the locations for ease of reference in planning your travel through all the points on the Ridgeline Craft Beverage Trail.

Have you found your favorite EMF’s focused and acclaimed spot yet? No matter what, you’ll summer study program includes enjoy a fabulous day touring all six orchestra students, piano students, spots on the trail! classical guitar students, euphonium and tuba students, conducting scholHappy travels! ars, and orchestral fellows that hail Annick, The Common Traveler from nearly every state in the U.S. www.thecommontraveler.net and across the globe. The Festival exemplifies the best of what great I’d like to thank Tour Cleveland music can foster: dedication, devo- County and Gaston County Travel & Tourism for sponsoring tion, inspiration, and community. my Ridgeline Craft Beverage For concert tickets and more information about Eastern Music Festival, visit Eastern Music Festival.org.

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