Lake Toxaway

Lake Toxaway offered a magical setting for a couple’s dream wedding.

The Greystone Inn’s Lakeside Dining Room has earned international honors with Opentable.com’s Diner’s Choice Award. To evaluate the wisdom of this honor, make reservations for breakfast, lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch, visit greystoneinn.com.

Paddles in the Water! Headwaters Outfitters in Rosman makes it possible to experience the French Broad River. Afterwards,you can relive the adventure at the Forks of the River Taproom. Before you set out, visit headwatersoutfitters.com.

Toxaway’s prosperity waxed and waned with a gorgeous lake and a blight that cleared the chestnut forests.

The massive rockface of Toxaway Falls is testament to a spectacular catastrophe.

Though it fostered a host of mysteries during its earlier incarnations, today the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute is dedicated to helping the public explore the mysteries of deep space. To learn more, visit pari.edu.

Southern Highlands Reserve in Toxaway is restoring red spruce-fir forests – and the impossibly cute Carolina Northern Flying Squirrels – to the mountains.

The Southern Highlands Reserve, located near Panthertown in the wild part of Toxaway, is a sanctuary for the precious botanical treasures of this part of Western North Carolina and a beacon for the people who love them. To visit this private garden, you can make reservations online at southernhighlandsreserve.org/events

A second catastrophe in the 1920s scattered Toxaway families to the Pacific Northwest, and beyond.