A letter from a local
Land of waterfalls, kingdom of loam.
Brevard sits where Pisgah National Forest meets DuPont State Forest — arguably the best back-to-back mountain biking addresses in the East, both within fifteen minutes. Pisgah is raw roots and rhododendron; DuPont is slickrock and swimming holes under waterfalls. Pick your church.
Transylvania County claims 250 waterfalls, and Looking Glass Rock's granite face hosts the region's proudest multi-pitch twenty minutes north. The French Broad drifts for mellow paddles; the Green River Narrows, forty minutes east, handles the expert carnage. White squirrels — the town mascot — supervise it all.
A brick-Main-Street college town with a music center and mountain access that embarrasses towns three times its size. The Southeast's best-kept riding secret, barely kept.
— Odell