Outside Magazine Names North Carolina Best Domestic Adventure Hub

North Carolina has been named Best Domestic Adventure Hub in Outside Magazine's 30 Most Incredible Trips to Take in 2015. "Take California, make the mountains greener and the beaches and restaurants less crowded, and replace all the digital millionaires with hospitable southerners, and you get North Carolina." - Outside Magazine.

Specific mountain area points of interest cited in the article include Asheville's farm-to-table restaurants, local breweries, and great music venues; mountain biking from world-class singletrack and road riding in the Blue Ridge mountains to the Big Avery Loop, a challenging 13-mile romp through rhododendron tunnels and way-off-the-back rock steps; 96 miles of Appalachian Trail with some of the most pristine hiking in the world; the Nantahala Outdoor Center with some of the country’s best whitewater and both national competitions and family-friendly activities. 

A few of the other Outside Magazine "Top 30" trips to take in 2015 were: 

• Best Island: Bermuda 
• Best Street Food: Austin, Texas 
• Best Place to Tie One On: Portland, Maine (although we would remind readers that Asheville has beat out Portland for #1 Beer City USA several years running) 
• Best Way to Get Strong Quads: San Juan Mountains, Colorado 
• Best Beaches: South Carolina (we assume Outside Mag didn't get the opportunity to visit NE Florida and the incredible pristine beach parks, Little Talbot and Big Talbot Island - Florida beaches the way they were before people arrived...) 
• Best Road Biking: California 
• Best Urban Upgrade: Philadelphia 
• Best Place to Eat and Drink Yourself Silly: Scotland 
• Best Safari: Kenya 
• Best Airbnb Property: Mary May’s 
• Best Surf Trip: Baja, Mexico 

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