Wilson Creek Cabins Vacation Rentals

10/20/2024

Bridge over to Edgemont Baptist church - at least that's getting replaced.

10/20/2024

The Harper Creek Bridge was rock solid but the earth around it couldn't hang, now engineers have to bless it to begin work. Hurry up boys - we need access from River side

10/20/2024

Turkey Trot up in the hills!

10/20/2024

Halloween moon!

10/18/2024

Harvest Moon Oct 17, 2024

10/10/2024

Dates available after cancellations worried about damage, our houses had minimal impact and I just got them looking....amazing. in case you need a getaway let's check your dates! New website: www.wilsoncreekcabins.com 704-408-0196

Brown Mountain Lodge has dates open the next 2 weekends for the perfect getaway call 704-408-0196 or check our site: www.brownmountainlodge.com/main.asp

10/08/2024

Realtor friends and clients - the market made a wild swing in the WRONG direction for higher rates and cost last Friday! It pays to have your Broker/Lender (LowerFasterBetterMortgage.com) price your clients loan and pre-qualify so we can save them as much as humanly possible. If they are selling a house I have options, if they are putting 20% down I have a high percentage of appraisal waivers, lets see what we can do for you! There is a difference between Retail and Wholesale.....I'm here to help, secure speed link to apply: JeffShook.Floify.com/apply

10/07/2024

Hahaha needed a good laugh.

10/07/2024

Another volunteer organization to get onboard to.help our area!

putting the public in public lands for 30 years. find out how to get involved OUR HANDS, OUR LANDS Hands on Conservation The sustainable future of National Forests depends on…

10/07/2024

For Those that want to volunteer, here is coordinated organization to do so.

If you wish to volunteer in Caldwell County, please complete the form below. If volunteers are working with our vulnerable populations, they must undergo a background check.

10/07/2024

Our area for those that want to be of help!

If you wish to volunteer in Caldwell County, please complete the form below. If volunteers are working with our vulnerable populations, they must undergo a background check.

10/07/2024

Lil history about our area!

10/04/2024

Mountains.....we will rise up again, ah player boys!

10/02/2024

Headed to the Hills to see my properties, say a prayer WilsonCreekCabins.com was sparred - I have no idea what I'll see when I get there!

10/02/2024

Word is getting out....Realtors are realizing the Broker Channel has evolved and gotten significantly better, its a better platform to originate, with more options for pricing, speed, products, compensation and technology and its all about saving our clients money and doing a better job. If you are an MLO losing business more and more to competition - take a look! call or text me for an appt we can zoom and i show you live in 20 mins 704-408-0196 or jump on our live CEO presentation zoom this Thursday 2PM est at: LowerFasterBetterMortgage.com/NEXA

Mortgage pros on the steps needed to continue gaining traction

09/28/2024

Not sure if Brown Mountain Beach Road is open or not, can't get anyone on the phone

09/28/2024

Impressive

If you’re on top of Grandfather Mountain on a clear morning at sunrise, you can see the Charlotte skyline 90 miles away. This amazing 📸 was taken by Leslie Restivo.

09/27/2024

Boone, what? King Street River.

09/26/2024

Wilson Creek Improvements? take a look.
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A diverse partnership is leading an effort to create a more sustainable future for Wilson Creek. Over the past three years, the community has come together to support better stewardship of the Wild and Scenic River. As part of this partnership, the US Forest Service is moving forward with plans to i...

09/23/2024

Won't be long now.....weekends and week days still available!

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

📸 Eddie O'Leary

10/24/2023

Coming up.

The Brown Mountain Lights • NC Ghost 👻

We first read about these mysterious Lights in elementary school in the North Carolina Ghost Stories book. We witnessed them our first try back in 2012. Just get there right before sunset and wait till dark. The kids with them good eyes saw them first and then everyone that had gathered witnessed them.

DONT look at your phone so your eyes will adjust to the dark darkness.

Brown Mountain is a low ridge in Burke County that, during dry, crisp evenings in the autumn, is host to a genuine and baffling mystery. When conditions are right, mysterious glowing orbs can be seen to rise up off the mountain, hover and wobble about fifteen feet up in the air, and then disappear. There's no denying that the lights are real. They have been observed by countless witnesses and photographed on many occasions. But what they are is still unknown.

The Brown Mountain Lights have been observed for centuries, and multiple legends have arisen around the phenomenon. The Cherokee were aware of the lights, and according to some accounts claimed that the lights were the souls of Cherokee women searching for their men who had died in a great battle between the Cherokee and the Catawba that took place on Brown Mountain. Another legend says that the lights are the the ghostly echoes of lights that appeared during a search for a murdered woman in the 19th century.

But what was once the most widely known legend was recorded in song in the 1950s by the duo known as the "Sweethearts of Country Music." Scott Wiseman and Myrtle Eleanor Cooper were both North Carolina natives, who sang recorded as Lulu Belle and Scotty from the 1920s until the 1950s. A married couple, the two performed together from 1935 until 1958 as regulars on the Chicago radio station's WLS-AM's National Barn Dance program. At the time, they were one of the biggest acts in country music.

The song Brown Mountain Light, penned by Wiseman, tells a version of the story where a man, accompanied by a slave, becomes lost while hunting on the mountain. The man is never found. The slave returns to the mountain every night with a lantern to hunt for him, carrying on this search even from beyond the grave.

Wiseman, who was from nearby Boone, said this version of the story is one he head from his uncle, who took him hunting and camping near Brown Mountain. The song rose to the top of the country charts and subsequently became the best-known version of the legend for a generation.
The legend of Brown Mountain recorded in the Lulu Belle and Scotty song is somewhat dated, particularly in regard to its unforgivable romanticizing of slavery. Indeed, it's easy to imagine a retelling of this story where the lights are from people looking for the slave who, when realizing he was alone on the mountain, seized his chance and hightailed it for Ohio and freedom.

As for the lights themselves, many different possible scientific explanations have been offered, from swamp gas to the reflections of automobile headlights from the valley below. But every explanation offered up so far seems to be too easily disproved. The lights have been observed since before automobiles existed, so headlights are an unsatisfactory explanation, and the lights were even observed during the 1916 flood that shut down all automobile and railway traffic in the valley below. The swamp gas theory seems to be slightly hobbled by the complete absence of a swamp on Brown Mountain. Some have theorized that the lights may be a naturally-occurring electrical discharge caused by the slow movement of the geological fault line below the mountain.

Whatever their cause, people still flock to see the Brown Mountain Lights, but spotting them is never guaranteed. Reportedly, your best chance to see the lights comes on a dry, clear night in October or November, after all the leaves are off the trees.

View them from Wisemans View on Old NC 105 and don’t drive your Tesla. ⚠️

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(35.9048322, -81.9086389) 📍

🖊️ North Carolina Ghost

10/18/2023

It's on now folks!

Blue ridge parkway carving through the foliage 🍂

10/01/2023

Longest runs in NC, book your winter ski trip

What"s new for ski season... Heading into the 2023-24 winter season skiers and snowboarders visiting Sugar Mountain Resort can expect to experience a smoother and more convenient equipment rental process. In partnership with Wintersteiger, an online equipment rental sign-up system along with newly installed touch screen kiosk stations are expected to streamline the guest’s experience.

Known for its snow making prowess, Sugar Mountain Resort ups-the-ante by adding six new fully automated SMI snow making machines. With the installation of those new snow makers guests can expect to see more wonderful white snow piling up throughout Upper and Lower Flying Mile, on the top of Big Birch, through lower Easy Street, and all over the Ski School Play Yard.

Feeding air to those new SMI machines and to the entire fleet of Sugar’s snow making system which covers 125 skiable acres, is a brand new 4,000 CFM compressor. The new compressor complements the four existing compressors.

With steadfast maintenance and upkeep over the years, the base lodge built in 1969 remains truly authentic. This summer, from the lower level to the upper level, the floors have been freshened up with new carpet. New windows have been installed. Outdoor siding has been replaced and the slope side deck has been rebuilt.

Shaping a smoother guest experience and aiming to build a snowier future are enhancements that Sugar Mountain Resort hopes will charm its guests.

Sugar Mountain Resort is North Carolina’s largest snow-sports resort. It strives to provide the most electrifying skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, tubing, and snowshoeing experience possible. See our Insiders Guide at https://seesugar.com/ski/

10/01/2023

Best time of the year for getaway!