Like neighboring Virginia, North Carolina has mountain scenery in the west, seacoast in the east, and tobacco and history in between. It shares the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with Tennessee, and the Blue Ridge Parkway with Virginia, but the Pisgah National Forest and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore are all its own, as are the top golfing and riding resorts of Pinehurst and Southern Pines. Other good resorts are Morehead City, Hot Springs, Franklin, Waynesville, Tryon and Anderson ville—which, if you're a Union Veteran of the Civil War, might seem to you to be a strange place to locate a resort, even though the infamous Andersonville Prison was in Georgia, not North Carolina. Fontana Village is a big, popular resort near Fontana Dam in the Great Smokies. North Carolina goes in strongly for folk dramas held annually. Leading ones include "The Lost Colony," at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site near Manteo, and "Unto These Hills," a historical drama of the Cherokee Indians, near Cherokee.
Outstanding among North Carolina's hotels are the Carolina and Holly Inn at Pinehurst; the Governor Tryon, a restored Victorian hotel at New Bern, and the Mid Pines Club, Pine Needles Country Club and Whispering Pines at Pinehurst.
In South Carolina, too, the landscape is mountainous in the west, rolling piedmont in the center and seaside in the east. For the visitor, the state is noted for its antebellum mansions around Charleston, Beaufort and Georgetown, the horsey social set gathering at Aiken in winter, the seaside resorts of Myrtle Beach, Folly Beach, Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island, and the recently developed resort and residential colony on Hilton Head Island. There is no Conrad Hilton hotel on this island but there are the excellent William Hilton (no relation) Inn and the Adventure Inn. There's no closed season for fishermen in South Carolina.
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