Partnership with Railroad Earth To Bring Added Creative To Festival Tickets On Sale Friday, April 5, 2012 at 10 a.m. EST Music On the Mountaintop, the annual music festival outside Boone, North Carolina has announced that the eclectic festival will return this August 24-26, 2012 as Railroad Earth’s Music on the Mountaintop. Celebrating its fifth […]

Mark your calendar!  The Banf Mountain Film Festival returns to Boone on Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31 and will be shown in Farthing Auditorium on the campus of Appalachian State University. The Banff Mountain Film Festival features the world’s best films on mountain adventure, culture, and the environment selected from hundreds of entries […]

The 2012 Opening Dates and Hours of Operation have just been released and are now available on the Virtual Blue Ridge website! It’s never too early to start planning your next Parkway excursion, so be sure to double check the dates and hours of your favorite Parkway destinations! View the 2012 Blue Ridge Parkway Concession […]

The Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition Opening Reception takes place on Friday, February 3, 2012 along with the start of voting for the AMPC People’s Choice Award.  49 finalist images will be on display from February 3 through June 2 at the Turchin Center for the Visual arts on the Campus of Appalachian State University in […]

The 11th annual music and arts festival that bears the moniker of its hometown of Floyd, Virginia, kicks off a second decade in July of 2012 with a bursting-at-the seams line-up of genre-spanning entertainment. FloydFest, which celebrated its tenth birthday in 2011 with an at capacity crowd of 14,000 daily patrons over the marathon 4-day […]