Play On in Jackson County, NC

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Jackson County looks like a postcard and turns out to be a real community. That distinction matters.

Dillsboro is small. Dogwood Crafters is the reason to stop. The Jackson County Green Energy Park hosts working artists in an active space: you can watch the work happen, not just see it finished.

Judaculla Rock sits outside Cullowhee, a soapstone boulder covered in petroglyphs left by the Cherokee that is still not fully understood. That is the kind of thing Jackson County has. The Tuckasegee River runs through the county. Whiteside Mountain is one of the more dramatic views in the southern Appalachians.

This is not a checklist destination. It is a county worth getting to know slowly.

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