as a youth in church group we went to Ashville to a school there that is a small school/college...Warren Wilson College....it had a unique feature that the students there all worked to pay a portion of their tuition at the school They also had a farm on the property with animals....we were there a week or so I guess....working in various capacities.....

I have returned there too when I drove my cousin to help him haul his parents stuff that he wanted when we sent them to Portland to live near his older brother. I drove him to city I cannot remember but it is a bigger city there in North Carolina...Railegh Durhamn? Anyway yes I have visited and liked the smokie mountians....I also went with parents one time when we visited the Biltmore Mansion there.....