| Follow all of the upcountry festivals of the Carolina Mountains through all the seasons. The Up Country of South Carolina and the High Country of North Carolina celebrates the beauty and life in the mountains throughout the year. Running the gamut from spring festivals to fall festivals, savvy travelers have a wide spectrum of attractions to choose from in the way of outdoor concerts, fiddler’s conventions, arts and crafts expos, clogging demonstrations, and all manner of harvest themed fall events such as the apple harvest and pumpkin harvest to name just a few. Harvest Festivals are a celebration of the past, present and future and provide historic perspective to our ancestors that instilled their mountain values to each succeeding generation. Daylong festivals include a variety of events such as parades, children’s activities, great food, great music, and plenty of dancing.
Any one of the Carolina’s hundreds of festivals can become a focal point for your family reunion, destination wedding ceremony, corporate team building event, or just your basic spontaneous long weekend getaway adventure. Or use these festivals as an add-on day to a group tour. You can search for festivals across North and South Carolina destinations throughout the year. If you live just a few hours drive time from our mountain paradise, make it a point to select different seasonal festivals in different geographic locations throughout the Blue Ridge mountain range to gain a better appreciation of mountain living. After all, from a seasonal festival standpoint, your comfort level can be greatly enhanced when attending these celebrations to do so more as a local who is in the know rather than to appear the occasional tourist. Here at Carolina Getaways, we will be happy to make you aware of the more popular attraction in the appropriate location at just the right time of year. And the more of these themed festivals you take in, the more prone you are to run into newly found friends you have met throughout the upcountry at the last seasonal festival you attended.
Take the road(s) less traveled along the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway in South Carolina (Highway 11) that slices its way through South Carolina’s northwest corner in a gently winding fashion. Following the southernmost peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains tumbling down from North Carolina, the 115 mile route is surrounded with peach orchards, quaint villages, historic points of interest, and pristine state parks all of which features the prerequisite festivals of every season throughout this vacation destination. Just a half hour’s drive or so to the north of this S.C. route in parallel is Highway 64 that runs through the higher elevated sister counties in North Carolina. This region is a favorite of national as well as regional travelers and has been featured by such publications as National Geographic, Rand McNally and Southern Living.
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