• Attend a show at Appalachian State's Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts, including touring Broadway musicals, lectures by Nobel laureates, and exciting concerts, ballets, and other events by popular performers.

• Tour the Colonial Revival-style Flat Top Manor in the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, the former country estate of Moses Cone—textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist of the Gilded Age. Hiking and horseback riding are allowed on 25 miles of trails that wind through the fields and forests of the 3,500-acre estate.

• Experience a hilke along the many local trails that extend from Blowing Rock. among the many tranquil pathways that head into the surrounding wilderness are Bass Lake Trail and the Glen Marie Falls Trail.