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(304-257-9198/ familytraditionsmenu.com).
STAY: Smoke Hole Caverns & Log Cabin Resort,
Cavins (800-828-8478/ smokehole.com).

WEST VIRGINIA STATE PARKS

FLY VINTAGE

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returning on Public Road 216, which runs along
the Williams River.
EAT: Pretty Penny Café, Hillsboro
(304-653-2646/ prettypennyfood.com)
STAY: Old Clark Inn, Marlinton
(800-849-4184/ oldclarkinn.com).

ALL ABOARD

In Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
(304-456-4300/ cassrailroad.com), steam-driven
locomotives pull passengers to the top of
4,700-foot-high Bald Knob, offering a bit of history along with spectacular fall views.
EAT: The Last Run Restaurant near the station.
STAY: Restored company houses near the station
offer lodging.

STAY HISTORIC

Many of Lewisburg's handsome homes were built
in the 1830s, making this city near White Sulphur
Springs a walker's delight.
EAT: Irish Pub on Washington Street, Lewisburg
(304-645-7386/ irishpubonwashingtonstreet.com).
STAY: The rooms at Historic General Lewis Inn,
Lewisburg (304-645-2600/ generallewisinn.com)
have spool and canopy beds, as well as several
antiques.

GET VERTICAL

Long popular with rock climbers, Seneca Rocks rise
nearly 900 feet over the North Fork River.
Underground passages and easy hiking, as well as
caving and rafting, make this an adventurist's
playground.
EAT: Family Traditions Restaurant, Petersburg
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See the New River, the Endless Wall trail and
Hawks Nest State Park from the passenger seat of
WWII-era biplanes flown by Wild Blue Adventure
(304-574-1150/ wildblueadventurecompany.com)
near Fayetteville. For a few dollars more, your pilot
will do barrel rolls.
EAT: Secret Sandwich Society, Fayetteville
(304-574-4777/ secretsandwichsociety.com).
STAY: The Historic Morris Harvey House Bed &
Breakfast, Fayetteville (304-250-7090/
morrisharveyhouse.com).
GEORGIA

PAMPER YOURSELF

If playing golf and riding horses at Brasstown Valley
Resort & Spa in Young Harris are too much, treat
yourself to a hot stone or deep tissue massage at the
resort's lodge-style Equani Spa.
(706-379-2336/ brasstownvalley.com/ spa). Facials,
body treatments and rituals indigenous to the
Cherokee people will get you back into fighting form.
EAT AND STAY: Brasstown Valley Resort & Spa,
Brasstown (800-201-3205/ brasstownvalley.com).

PADDLE UPRIGHT

Kayak tours of Lake Tugaloo near Clayton on the
Georgia-South Carolina line are just some of the
adventures that Wildwater Chattooga (866-3198870/ wildwaterrafting.com) offers in north Georgia.
Learn how to paddleboard, or zip across Academy
Lake and Chattooga Ridge.
EAT AND STAY: Beechwood Inn, Clayton
(706-782-5485/ beechwoodinn.ws).

LEDERHOSEN OPTIONAL

The streets of Helen, once a logging town in decline,
are now lined with shops that would look at home in
south Germany. Proof you can't get too much of a
good thing is Oktoberfest, which in Helen lasts into
November.
EAT: Bodensee Restaurant, Helen
(706-878-1026/ bodenseerestaurant.com).
STAY: Alpine Hilltop Haus, Helen
(706-878-2388/ alpinehilltop.com).

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