Polk County North Carolina is a Great Place for Business!

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Here is a wonderful video depicting all of the numerous benefits of conducting business in our Carolina Foothills Chamber Area!  Many thanks to the fine folks who worked hard to put together this fine video illustrating our multi-faceted economic area! It really is no wonder we are such a happy bunch with 26 vineyards in [...]

Pro Charity Invitational Tennis Tournament

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This past week of April 28th through May 1st I participated as a patron sponsor at the 2011 Pro Charity Invitational Tennis Tournament at the Country Club of Spartanburg, along with watching some high level tennis, I enjoyed participating in all the festivities including three tennis clinics given by Wayne Bryan, father of the world #1 men’s doubles team, [...]

Public Tennis Courts

Harmon Field, Tryon, NC Polk County High School, Columbus, NC Landrum High School, Landrum, SC

Blue Wall Passage of the Palmetto Trail

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The rolling hills of the Carolina Foothills area makes the Blue Wall Passage the “crown jewel” of the Palmetto Trail. Five miles of the trail run through the Nature Conservancy’s Blue Wall Preserve. The preserve is the eastermost portion of the Blue Ridge Escarpment and offers beautiful mountain views, old forests, and clear ponds and [...]

South Carolina’s Palmetto Trail – Blue Wall Passage

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The Palmetto Trail is a cross-state trail that is nearly 50% complete with about 250 miles open to the public. The trail is a series of “passages” featuring primitive pathways along knife-edged mountaintops, and sections which are are urban bikeways, greenways and rail-to-trail conversions. A total of 19 passages are currently open for single or [...]

Whitewater Rafting

Cherokee Adventures Endless River Adventures Nantahala Outdoor Center River Runners Retreat Rolling Thunder River Company Wahoo’s Whitewater Rafting Wildwater Rafting

Fishing

Green River Adventures Lake Adger

Shunkawauken Falls

150 feet high – From I-26 at NC 108, drive east toward Columbus for 0.4 miles and turn left onto Houston Road for 0.5 miles. Bear right to stay on Houston Road another 0.6 miles and then turn left onto White Oak Mountain Road. It’s 2.0 miles to the upper portion of the falls, which [...]

Pearson’s Falls

90 feet high – owned by the Tryon Garden Club and open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday – Saturday, 12 noon to 6 p.m. Sundays, except Mondays & Tuesday November 1 – March 1 ($3 admission). From downtown Saluda, North Carolina drive south on US 176 through town and turn right onto Pearson Falls [...]

Spartanburg County South Carolina

Croft State Natural Area (Trail Map) Fairforest Loop (3.5 miles) Fosters Mill Loop (6.5 miles) Lake Craig Connector (1.0 mile) Lake Johnson Loop (2.4 miles) Lake Johnson/Fairforest Connection (4.5 miles) Rocky Ridge (3.5 miles