Highlands, North Carolina Highlands, North Carolina The town of Highlands as seen from Sunset Rock.
The town of Highlands as seen from Sunset Rock.
Official seal of Highlands, North Carolina Location of Highlands, North Carolina Location of Highlands, North Carolina Highlands is an incorporated town in Macon County in the U.S.
Located on a plateau in the southern Appalachian Mountains, inside the Nantahala National Forest, it lies mostly in southeastern Macon County and slightly in southwestern Jackson County, in the Highlands and Cashiers Townships, in the order given.
Highlands was established in 1875 after its two founders, Samuel Truman Kelsey and Clinton Carter Hutchinson, drew lines from Chicago to Savannah and from New Orleans to New York City.
In the 1930s the town became a golfing mecca when Bobby Jones of Atlanta and some of his well-heeled golfing buddies established the Highlands Country Club. Today that club is one of seven prosperous residential nation club communities in the area.
The Highlands Country Club is south of Highlands on Dillard Road (North Carolina Highway 106).
Highlands is positioned at 35 3 15 N 83 12 8 W (35.054129, -83.202351). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the improve has a total region of 6.2 square miles (16 km2), of which 6.1 square miles (16 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2), or 1.94%, is water.
Highlands has a subtropical highland climate (Koppen Cfb), with much cooler weather than the rest of the American South.
Average snow flurry is only 13 inches (33 cm), largely due to the fact that Highlands is further south and east in the Appalachian Mountains.
Regardless, Highlands is one of the very rare locations at this latitude that has an average high of 78 F or 26 C in July, far lower than the rest of the American South.
Climate data for Highlands, North Carolina Highlands is becoming more and more a two-season community; a summer-season improve and an ever-growing winter-season community.
There is one enhance school in the town, Highlands School, as well as a enhance library, known as the Hudson Library.
Highlands has a postal service, with ZIP code 28741 covering all of Highlands township and adjoining parts of Sugar Fork township.
Cable tv and cable modem services for the town of Highlands are contracted to Northland Cable TV, and later Highlands Cable Group.
Highlands Cable Group now carries all the small-town networks and the 3 "PBS" networks as well as "Peachtree TV" and "Fox Networks" all in HD.
Fiber Optics or "Direct Fiber Connections" are now available through Highlands Cable Group as well.
WHLC FM 104.5 broadcasts from a home on Cashiers Road just north of town, and is one of the only stations to still have an easy listening format.
28 briefly south, west around the south side of downtown, and then south again toward Pine Mountain, Georgia and Walhalla, South Carolina, keeping the number 28 in all three states.
While it is also the nearest automated airport weather station, conditions there do not accurately reflect Highlands, as there is a primary difference in elevation, and therefore temperature and precipitation.
A USFS RAWS automated weather station (HGLN7) operates from north-northwest of Highlands, along Flat Mountain Road (N.C.
Harris Lake in Highlands amid fall The nature and hiking trails around Highlands are prominent with backpackers, and there is at least one outfitter store in town.
As Highlands is in such a mountainous area, there are many scenic places to hike.
With Highlands being home to various waterfalls, many hiking trails lead to these falls.
Fishing is available in Highlands, at Harris Lake, Cliffside Lake Recreation Area and other in-town and surrounding-area lakes.
Cliffside Lake, in particular, is stocked with Rainbow, Brown and Brook Trout. Some fishing areas near Highlands are enhance and the rest are private fishing grounds.
There are also a several rivers, including the Cullasaja River that begins in town, and the Chattooga River to the southeast.
Main article: Bridal Veil Falls (Macon County) Bridal Veil Falls is a 45-foot (14 m) waterfall positioned in the Nantahala National Forest, northwest of Highlands.
With a short curve of roadway positioned behind the falls, it has the distinct ion of being the only waterfall in the state that one can drive a vehicle behind.
Bridal Veil Falls flows on a tributary of the Cullasaja River through the Nantahala National Forest.
The falls flows over an overhanging bluff that allows visitors to walk behind the falls and remain dry when the waterflow is low.
Bridal Veil Falls is positioned on the side of U.S.
Highway 64 originally used the curve of roadway behind the falls exclusively so that all traffic went behind them; however, this caused enigma with icing of the roadway amid freezing weather, and it was re-routed around the front of the falls since.
There is a parking region on the side of the road, where visitors can park and view the falls as well.
In 2003, a massive boulder slid off the left side of the falls, blocking that side of the drive-under completely.
Main article: Cullasaja Falls Cullasaja Falls is positioned on the Cullasaja River in the Nantahala National Forest and is part of the Mountain Waters Scenic Byway.
The falls is the last primary waterfall on the Cullasaja River. The falls is a long cascade over the course of 0.2 miles (0.32 km).
The height of the falls is given as 200 feet (61 m) in Kevin Adams' book, North Carolina Waterfalls and 250 feet (76 m) by NCWaterfalls.com. However, Google Earth gives a height (based on the altitude of the water at the top of the falls and the altitude of the plunge pool at the bottom of the falls) of 137 feet (42 m).
It is easy to catch a glimpse of the falls as you drive by; however, getting a better view of the falls is not easy.
The falls are positioned beside a series of blind curves on Highway 64 with sheer modern cliffs above and below the road.
There is only one small pull-off near the falls, but walking on the road puts visitors in danger of being hit by a passing vehicle.
Main article: Dry Falls (Macon County) Dry Falls, also known as Upper Cullasaja Falls, is a 65-foot (20 m) waterfall in the Nantahala National Forest, northwest of Highlands on the Cullasaja River.
It is part of a series of waterfalls on an 8.7-mile (14.0 km) stretch of the river that eventually ends with Cullasaja Falls.
Dry Falls flows over an overhanging bluff that allows visitors to walk up under the falls and remain mostly dry when the waterflow is low, hence its name.
The falls has been called Dry Falls for a long time, but has also gone by a several other names, including High Falls, Pitcher Falls, and Cullasaja Falls. Dry Falls is positioned on the side of U.S.
Highway 64 3.1 miles (5.0 km) north of Highlands.
There is a parking region on the side of the road, where visitors can park before walking the short path with stairs to the falls.
Main article: Quarry Falls (Macon County) Quarry Falls (aka Bust Your Butt Falls) is a small waterfall positioned beside US Highway 64 west of Highlands.
Publisher: Hudson Library of Highlands, North Carolina (1994) Heart of the Blue Ridge Highlands, North Carolina by Randolph P.
ISBN 0-9710130-3-9 A written history of the town of Highlands, NC from its foundation to the printed announcement of this book.
ISBN 0-7385-5403-0 A pictorial history of the town of Highlands, NC before and after its founding, from 1820-1930.
"Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Highlands town, North Carolina".
An exhibit at the Highlands Historical Village Highlands Country Club.
Highlands Chamber of Commerce Website Welcome to Highlands Community Players! Highlands Chambers of Commerce NCWaterfalls.com Bridal Veil Falls page a b Kevin Adams, North Carolina Waterfalls, p.
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