Triangle area - Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle
Park, and outlying counties
The Mountains - or, where the wild boars play (Asheville,
Cullowhee, Boone, Murphy, and points west)
The Piedmont/Triad - foothills of the Carolinas (Winston-Salem,
Statesville, Greensboro, High Point, Burlington)
The Shore - over 400 miles of beaches (Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil
Hills, Wilmington, and other beach counties)
The Sandhills - where golf, gardening, and pine trees reign supreme
(Aberdeen, Raeford, Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Fayetteville)
Charlotte - the biggest little city in North Carolina
Other Resources
Deserving of their own section in and of themselves are stories from a series
published in the News and Observer in 1994.
Some of the picture links are broken, and some of the references are obsolete.
However, they capture the spirit of many of these small, out-of-the-way towns
and showcase what they're famous - or infamous - for.
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