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Boone & Surrounding Area
Spring, summer, and fall annually bring some 20 million visitors to the Blue Ridge Parkway and the section of the world-famous Appalachian Trail that runs through the western part of North Carolina and Virginia. It is just minutes from campus. If you stand in the right place, you can see the entire campus, nestled against some of the oldest land masses in the continental United States—a chain of peaks with such off-the-top-of-the-head names as Howard’s Knob, Whitetop, Elk Knob, Attic Window, Grandfather Mountain, Jane Bald, and Hump.
Mountain streams, hiking trails, and spectacular vistas await the adventure-seeking with minutes of Appalachian’s campus. Sports Afield picked Appalachian as one of “America’s Top Colleges for Serious Outdoor Sports.”