The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-04-18
NORTH CAROLINA MORE THAN
EVER BEFORE MAY NOW BE
"A VARIETY VACATIONLAND"
Vasf developments in Past Year Added to It's
O;Verwhelm!ng Attractions From Mountains TO
me oea o Offer Intensified Appeal TO Tourists
os me '790 season Is Opening; Extensive I'm

More to see and do, more new
roads and more accommodations
highlight the travel picture in
North Cardinals variety Vaca-
tlonland" reaching from the sea-
coast to the highest mountains in
Eastern America.
New and newly improved roads
INK mountain resorts to Americas
most-visited National Park Serv-
ice attractions: the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park and the
Blue Ridge Parkway. New bridges.
new roads and more free ferry
service give access to the beach
resorts and the Cape Hatteras Ma
tional Seashore on North Caro-
lina's historic coast.
New motor lodges have been
built throughout the State. In
most resorts, the number of hotels
and motor courts staying open year
around has increased. New wear
around motor lodges have been
built in the mid-state Sandhills.
where several of the famed winter
golf courses are among the more
than 100 courses open all year in
North Carolina.
In the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park, new self-euidinp
trails have been added for hiking
and nature study.
There are new picnic and camp-
ing spots in Cape .Hatteras Ma
tional Seashore on Bodie, Halter
as and Ocracoke islands. Ocracoke.
now accessible by free automobile
ferry from Hatteras, has a new
paved State highway running from
the northern tip of the island to
the village of Ocracoke. On Hat
teras, a new paved road loops off
the Hatteras Highway to Hatteras
Lighthouse and the adjacent
beaches, Museum of the Sea, and
seaside campground near the Cape.
New highway signs to guide and
inform visitors have appeared all
over North Carolina during the
past year. They range from big
overhead signs at bypasses and in
tersections to rustic roadside signs
explaining geographical or histor-
lcal features. The number of road
side picnic tables, in addition to
those at Is roadside parks along
main highways, has been increased
to 450.
4-SeasOn Variety
] North Carolina is a four-season
vacationland offering holiday fun
at any time of the year. Each sea-
son is highlighted by colorful
fairs, festivals or sports events.
Many attractions and accommoda-
tons remain open year-around. The
States geography gives it varied
climate as well as magnificent seen
cry.
The "rooftop of Eastern Amer
lea" is formed by the Southern
Appalachians across the western
part of the State. Here, in the
Blue Ridge, Great Smokes, and
the shorter ranges between, there
are 22S peaks of 5000 feet eleva-
ton or more - including Mount
Mitchell, highest mountain east of
the Mississippi. Mountain resorts
are cool even in midsummer. The
appeal of spring flowers and au-
tunin foliage rivals summertime,s
popularity as the top-ranking tray
el season.
On the North Carolina coast. the
chain of islands known as the Out
er Banks swings out to within 12
miles of the Gulf Stream at Cane
Hatteras, where the variety of
northern and southern species of
fish caught from beaches and boats
given the area its title of "Game-
hsh Junction" The entire North
Carolina coast, broken by numer-
Gus sounds, inlets and rivers, is ex-
cellent for boating as well as for
flshing. At the beach resorts, the
surf and sun season lasts for al
most six months of the year. Salt
water fishing, at its best in spring
and autumn, is year-around. Boat
ing is year-around, too, and there
is excellent waterfowl shooting
and big game hunting at many
places along the coast in winter.
Between the coastal plain and the
Blue Ridge Divide, the winter eli
mate is mild, and tempered further
by distinctive regions known as the
Sandhills and the Thermal Belt
The rolling Sandhills countryside,
with its, longleaf pine and sandy
soil, is the setting for famed Az.
umn-through-Spring golf and rid.
ing resorts. In the Southeastern
Blue Ridge foothills, is the Ther.
NAL Belt. Here Tryon--less M,
!; half-hour's drive from leading sum,
inner resorts-is a year around -
sort because Of its mild climate I,
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