Editor's note: Stay tuned for more posts about family fun in the Beech Mountain, Blowing Rock and Boone areas this week. For years, Tweetsie Railroad has provided a few thrills and lots of laid-back ...

A landmark Wild West theme park nestled in the mountains of western North Carolina will remain open through 2010, despite skyrocketing land prices that threatened to shutter its doors. Subscribe to ...

I traveled to Tweetsie Railroad because I had a hole in my childhood. I had two days to stitch in a memory — my rite of wholesome kitsch — that my New England parents had denied me. Instead of ...