Welcome to the High Country.
- Carefree Cove is centrally located near Boone, NC. The area is know as the High Country because it averages 3,300 feet above sea level.
- The High Country consists of 3 counties, Ashe, Watauga and Avery. Carefree Cove sits on the border of Ashe and Watauga, near the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
- Appalachian State University has a beautiful campus and offers educational, cultural and sports opportunities. Founded in 1899, it was named Time Magazine’s College of the Year in 2001.
- The Blue Ridge Mountain area is a must visit for the outdoor enthusiast during all four seasons. Offering premiere hiking, biking, horseback riding, golf, canoeing, fishing, whitewater rafting and skiing trails that will keep everyone busy. See our Towns and Activities page for more.
- Boone is home to 15,000 people. Watauga County has 42,700 and Ashe County, 24,400. See Watauga County data at City-Data.
- Watauga Medical Center is a 117-bed regional referral medical complex, offering both primary and secondary acute and specialty care, with a 24-hour physician staffed emergency department.
- Wal-Mart, Lowes Hardware, Staples office supply store, Harris Teeter, Ingles and Lowes grocery stores which stock foods for the gourmet cook.
- A large, wonderful variety of restaurants for the discriminating palette.
- Shopping not only in Boone but also in Blowing Rock and the other surrounding communities will satisfy every “shop-a-holic”!
- The climate is temperate with comfortable summers, dazzling autumn colors, a skier’s paradise come winter and crisp, green springtime. Log onto www.booneweather.com. Not only will that tell you the current weather it will also give you a weather history. As an example, in 2002:
- the highest recorded temperature was 85 degrees on August 22nd,
- the lowest was on March 4th at 9.5 degrees,
- the mean low for the year was 33.4 degrees and the mean high was 68.6 degrees.
