The mountains are a great place for a family vacation, there are so many places to visit and explore. We have started the Just for Kid's section so that we can share a bit of the mountains with your kids. Read our stories, read our book reviews, visit our sponsors print our coloring pages, color them at home or take them in the car to entertain you on your mountain trip. We are starting a new "Highlander Kid Club" with free membership to bring positive stories, books, trips, art and creative projects. Bookmark and come back to watch the progress.

Kid Friendly Events

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Visit our Sponsor's these are great places for Kids to Discover in the Mountains
	Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park If new visitors know anything about us, they know Chimney Rock - the epic, ancient bit of granite that stands majestically over some of the most beautiful terrain you'll find. The views it offers across Hickory Nut Gorge are jaw-dropping.
	Home of the Foxfire book series - the physical legacy built by high school students who took a real interest in their heritage while producing The Foxfire Magazine, an ongoing documentation of Southern Appalachia. Truly unique artifact collection in/around 20+ log cabins. Visitors to the Foxfire Museum in Mountain City, GA, can imaginatively re-create the works and days of southern Appalachia in the 1800s.
	John C Campbell Folk School offers creative, learning vacations for adults in a beautiful natural setting. With classes in craft, art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, nature studies, photography and writing. Discover why Rand McNally Atlas named the Folk School one of the top 30 U.S. destinations for a day’s visit in their Best of the Road listing. Numerous walking trails meander the 300-acre campus, including the Rivercane Walk, a creekside trail with art honoring the strong Cherokee heritage of the Appalachian area.
	Sunny D Childen's Theater Plays and Acting Classes The Sunny D Children's Theater provides a fun and educational theater experience for children ages 5 to 18 of Blue Ridge and the surrounding areas. The Sunny D Children's Theater creates a relaxed, fun, and creative setting for children to learn about themselves, build self-esteem and learn to work as a group toward a common goal. Go Directly to our web site.....Sunny D Children's Theater
	Medicine Bow is a 35 acre wilderness school tucked into the Chattahoochee National Forest in the mountains of north Georgia near Dahlonega. The owner and teacher, Mark Warren, guides his students toward their own unique relationship with nature through the Earthlore accumulated by the Native Americans. Through the classes of Medicine Bow nature takes on new values as the source of food, medicine, craft materials, fire, tools, shelter and primitive weaponry. Learning through the patient methods of the American Indians, students encounter a vast academic growth as well as a spiritual one.
	Medicine Bow Adventure Camp for both boys and girls 10 and older wanting a broader spectrum of activities, survival skills, learning plants and their uses, tomahawk & knife throwing, archery, fire creation, games, hikes … By request, I have started offering summer camps dedicated just to the skill and adventure of Archery.  Pardon the boast, but there is no archery program like this one. I pour my 25 years of experience into the best instruction I have yet experienced in any other camp or school. But this serious teaching is balanced by games of adventure, quickness, and discretion such as were practiced in Native American communities as well as in Sherwood Forest.
	The Learning Center!   A North Carolina Charter School located in Murphy North Carolina.
	TLC Montessori Preschool in Murphy North Carolina, preparing children to be the best they can be.

Fishing as a Pathway to Nature

Helpful KidLinks

www.kidsecologycorps.org/

www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/kidspage/

www.ecokids.ca

Junior Ranger Program

Junior Ranger Events for Kids

Main Highlander Kid's Club Page

Mountain Adventure and Family Fun

Horseback Riding in the Mountains

Mountain History, Learn About the Mountains

Myths and Legends, Read about the Fairy Crosses

Book Reviews

Gatlinburg Christmas Lights for Kids