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We are finally able to take a full day next month to drive through NC on a scouting trip, while on the way to the east coast for Thanksgiving. Can you throw some suggestions for places to drive through to scout for a future move? My plan is to drive through Marion, Little Switzerland, over to Boone/Banner Elk, back over toward Bakersville, then I-26 to some Tenn spots. I really would like to live in an area above 2500 feet, or far enough north to make up for elevation. We'll be retired by the time we move, so employment and kids in school are not a problem. Will also come back next summer for a week to do a deeper scout, Thanks.
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We are finally able to take a full day next month to drive through NC on a scouting trip, while on the way to the east coast for Thanksgiving. Can you throw some suggestions for places to drive through to scout for a future move? My plan is to drive through Marion, Little Switzerland, over to Boone/Banner Elk, back over toward Bakersville, then I-26 to some Tenn spots. I really would like to live in an area above 2500 feet, or far enough north to make up for elevation. We'll be retired by the time we move, so employment and kids in school are not a problem. Will also come back next summer for a week to do a deeper scout, Thanks.
That's an awful lot to squeeze into one day, especially with it getting dark by 6 pm next month.
The parkway will be leafless and pretty bleak, and with a 45 mph speed limit you will not cover
much ground. But if you do have time, I would visit West Jefferson, about 30 minutes north of Boone.
I really would like to live in an area above 2500 feet, or far enough north to make up for elevation.
It doesn't quite work like that. North/south has nothing to do with cooler temperatures if that's what you're looking for. It's ONLY elevation. And the general consensus on the forum here is you need to be above 3000ft. 2500 feet won't do the trick.
It will most likely be cold everywhere in November. You need to come back in the summer if you want to really feel the difference elevation makes.
I agree that that is way too much to do in a single day and expect to see anything. Keep an eye on the weather. Snow and ice in November is not unusual. Probably won't run into it, but there was a nice Halloween snowstorm year before last I believe.
Nearly all day probably on a 'normal drive', but unless you are glancing at houses as you drive by on the road, you won't see many.
The far northwest counties of NC are probably cooler on most days of year vs Franklin, et al in the southwest counties or Asheville and east. But, I agree with poppydog it is mostly about elevation, as in 3-3500+ ft nearly anywhere in western NC.
Wes, your Nov route doesn't get near Madison/Haywood/Jackson counties all of which have decent little towns, lots of houses, lots of views and house elevations from 2500 to nearly 6,000 ft.
Those 3 counties have more 'mountains' than the rest of western NC combined, imo.
GL, mD
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