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Tips, guides, and insights to outdoor themed travel and adventure in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Southeast.

2011 Summer Camps Guide

by BRO Staff January 3, 2011

Reflections: I began a long relationship with summer camp when I was 9 and my parents sent me to camp along the coast of North Carolina.  As a child, I was very shy and not comfortable around people I didn’t immediately know.  I vividly remember running after my parents car as they drove away that [...]

Best Year Ever: 101 Outdoor Resolutions

by Graham Averill January 3, 2011

1. bathe like a polar bear Wait until the dead of winter. Find a body of water. Strip and jump in. Here are two suggestions: Blowing Rock Polar Plunge (Jan. 29)or the Virginia Beach Polar Plunge (Feb. 4-5). 2. get muddy 5Ks are great, but why not run a 5K with mud pits, scaling walls, [...]

Lookout Mountain, Alabama

by Jedd Ferris November 30, 2010

‘Bama is more than just cotton fields and Gulf coastal waterways. The state’s portion of Lookout Mountain—which stretches into three states including Georgia and Tennessee—is a hidden treasure of stunning scenery. Alabama’s northeast corner features the tail end of the Cumberland Plateau, and the centerpiece of the underappreciated area is the vast 14,000-acre Little River [...]

Black Mountain, N.C.

by Jedd Ferris October 27, 2010

Black Mountain sits as the front porch to Western North Carolina’s vast mountain spread—a mellow alternative to Asheville’s increasing congestion just 15 miles west. Holly Colson moved to the artsy small town from Park City, Utah, because it was one of the highest place east of the Rockies. The avid cyclist, trail runner, and part [...]

Chattanooga, Tennessee

by Jedd Ferris October 1, 2010

Randy Whorton always intended to move back to Boulder, but plans changed six years ago when he landed in Chattanooga. “Now you couldn’t pay me enough to move back west,” says Whorton, the founder of Wild Trails, a trail advocacy group that hosts a series of running races in Chattanooga. “We are Trail City, USA. [...]

Fall Foliage Finds

by BRO Staff October 1, 2010

Follow these links to our region’s top leaf-watching sites.