Outdoor Adventures
Haywood County "The Jewel of Western North Carolina" has 19 mountain peaks 14 of which are the highest number of mountain peaks over 6,000 feet in any single county east of the Mississippi. . Three National Forests and one National Park; all contained within the heartland of the Blue Ridge Mountains, all merging here in North Carolina`s Haywood County. Haywood County is also home to the Blue Ridge Parkway and to Cold Mountain, the basis for the award-winning, best-selling novel by Charles Frazier and the ensuing 2003 major motion picture.
