I have a friend who owns 17 acres out there and I think it is about as beautiful a place as there is in Western NC.

What does everyone else think?

I think it’s gorgeous, but a little too remote for me. I grew up in the boonies, having to drive a half hour to go to the grocery store. I’m quite enjoying Weavervegas.

That part of it sucks. My friend goes to Canton for his non Earth Fare groceries (the supermarket there is about 15 minutes away over the steepest mountain road I’ve ever driven on), but to Asheville for any sort of restaurant or cultural need.

Out to the Newfound exit I would suppose. It must suck that the nearest center of commerce is Canton, the armpit of WNC.

Even the Newfound exit is 5 miles off of where to go. Take Willow Creek road over the mountain and it turns into Beaverdam road. That will take you right into Canton a lot quicker than driving to Big Sandy Mush road, over Early’s Mountain Road, back onto South Turkey Creek, onto Leicester Highway, back to Newfound road, over the mountain and onto the highway.

bobaloo - 23 July 2009 10:25 AM

Out to the Newfound exit I would suppose. It must suck that the nearest center of commerce is Canton, the armpit of WNC.

There are always penalties for rustication.

It’s the most beautiful place I’ve seen and I love the farms.  This city girl discovered there i’m a natural-born bean picker.  First time I’ve ever been the best and the quickest.  Maybe it’s an ancestral skill I didn’t know I had.  Trouble is, without lights and street signs, I’m lost.  I even had to be rescued once.  I had wandered into Madison County.

Was the name picked to be as unpleasantly evocative as possible to keep people away, kinda like “Iceland” supposedly was? Was “Enormous Barren Quagmire” already taken?

I Heard The Cherokee name for the Asheville Valley was actually “Sprawling Gentrified Pavement”. translated of course.

it’s a nice place. I rented a house in Sandy Mush off Sugar Creek Road for about 8 months. It’s just too far from anything. 25 mins to Asheville city limits, about the same to Canton. People should just let it stay the way it is: mostly farmland.

I lived in Sandy Mush for a couple of years when I was really young. Like, five years old young.

It was a wonderful place to be a backwoods kid.