Yes I know Appy State....too well. I navigate just fine between Boone, Mountain City, Wilkesboro and North Wilkesboro. 421 is fun with black ice and a hot rodded 1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe. The trip of a lifetime! (Almost the end of one, too, LOL)
We used to have a mountaintop home at Hound Ears between Boone and Sugar
My little brother went to Lees McRae in Banner Elk
Got friends all over Watauga and Avery and Ashe counties
Boone is actually a bit less hippie on King st than the 80s/90s
Asheville on the otherhand is a lost cause
Hipsters and freaks and of course Dykes galore
Pretty town though
My cousin and wife live in Kernersville
I was born at Seymour Johnson long long ago
Problem in your lovely state is all the newcomers
Middle TN has the same issue sadly
North Carolina has more relative peak prominence footage wise than does Oregon
Factoid few believe