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I grew up in the area and I think pretty highly of it. If your priority is mountain cabin views I would recommend Bryson City (has a cute downtown and really close to smokies), Cashiers (literally on the continental divide, not a ton up there as it's mostly a 3rd and 4th home community with golfing resorts but gorgeous views), Brevard (close to asheville with awesome views and some pretty great beer), Sylva (really cool mainstreet with 3-4 cool breweries and cocktail bars, pretty good mountain views, in the middle of a lot of stuff e.g., Cherokee, skiing, Asheville, etc). Any of those places have tons of access to hiking. I definitely recommend hiking up in the Smokies, check out Waterrock knob, Max Patch, Graveyard fields, Gorges State Park, Panthertown Valley. Biltmore house is for sure worth a visit.

If you drink beer you should visit a few of the local breweries - Burial (Asheville), Dssolvr (Asheville), Highland (Asheville), Oskar Blues (Brevard), New Belgium (Asheville), Highland (Asheville), Innovation (Dillsboro).
If you want some good food while you're around, you mostly can't go wrong in Asheville with restaurants but some must trys are Buxton Hall, Biscuithead, Sunny Pointe Cafe, Curate, Limone, The original Tupelo Honey, The Forestry Camp, 12 Bones, Haywood Smokehouse.

I posted this on another thread but seems relevant here.

Knoxville is new to liking college baseball so tailgating doesn't happen unless you have tickets for the porch or the patio. Fieldhouse Social is a solid sports bar near the baseball stadium. If I were you, while in Knoxville, I would spend most of my time around Market Square (tons of restaurants, bars, and breweries). Best Breweries in town are Xul and Crafty Bastard, best tacos - Chivos, burger - Stock and Barrel (also great whiskey bar), ice cream (Pheonix Pharmacy), BBQ - SweetP's Downtown Dive, Downtown Beer Bar - Knox Brew Hub, Downtown Cocktail Bar - Tern Club or Central Depot, Doughnuts - Status Dough, Pizza - Adopo (sourdough) or South Coast (traditional greasy). Knoxville is a cool place to live unless you are a UT fan, then it is full of constant disappointment.

Here's to hoping we get out of this weekend with two wins and their coach!

Geaux Tigers!

Based on the transitive property of college football we are now better than USCw... We smoked Washington, Washington beat Stanford, Stanford beat USCw...i.e. We beat USCw...

I agree completely. Plus, if Bama punts instead of attempting 40+ yd field goals, TM7 might pull off another Pat pete style return.

It was pretty damn good, I'm not quite sure how they got all those proportions to work out, especially with the wild variety of meat they used but they did well.