The mountains are a great place for a family vacation, there are so many places to visit and explore. We have started the Just for Kid's section so that we can share a bit of the mountains with your kids. Read our stories, read our book reviews, visit our sponsors print our coloring pages, color them at home or take them in the car to entertain you on your mountain trip. We are starting a new "Highlander Kid Club" with free membership to bring positive stories, books, trips, art and creative projects. Bookmark and come back to watch the progress. If you have any questions or suggestions for this page email us at highlanderkids@theblueridgehighlander.com Coloring Pages Book Reviews Nature Crafts Animal Tracks Wildflowers Madeleine's Organic Garden Other Interests to Kids and Parents.... Wilderness Classes and Summer Camps for Kids Sign up for our Highlander Kids Club Newsletter Visit our Sponsor's these are great places for Kids to Discover in the Mountains Gorilla Haven is the world's only private, AZA* certified gorilla holding facility. Owners, Steuart and Jane Dewar, have offered to provide some personal tours to offer a rare opportunity to our friends and neighbors, and to help raise funds for this important project. Walking tour will include behind-the-scenes of the GH facility, including gorilla villas, habitat, veterinary hospital, food preparation room, administration, and group building. Chances of seeing gorilla residents, Joe and Oliver, are excellent and photography is allowed. Visitors to the Foxfire Museum in Mountain City, GA, can imaginatively re-create the works and days of Southern Appalachia in the 1800's. Foxfire also has a series of books 40 to date on mountain culture, covering every topic you can think of. John C Campbell Folk School offers creative, learning vacations for adults in a beautiful natural setting. With classes in craft, art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, nature studies, photography and writing. Discover why Rand McNally Atlas named the Folk School one of the top 30 U.S. destinations for a day’s visit in their Best of the Road listing. Numerous walking trails meander the 300-acre campus, including the Rivercane Walk, a creekside trail with art honoring the strong Cherokee heritage of the Appalachian area. The Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds are right on beautiful Lake Chatuge in Towns County Georgia. The Fairgrounds sit along the banks and are surrounded by the mountains, including the tallest mountains in Georgia. The Festivals and Concerts start in early spring with the Rhododendron Festival, followed by the Bluegrass Festival, The Georgia Mountain Fair, Fall Festival, Super Star Concerts, Georgia's Official State Fiddler's Convention and there are campgrounds right on beautiful shores of Lake Chatuge. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia, Eckerd Academy of the Blue Ridge, is a licensed and accredited outdoor therapeutic program and alternative school in Suches, GA that accepts boys and girls (ages 10 through 17). At Eckerd Academy of the Blue Ridge, students receive an individualized academic and treatment plan that helps them achieve their maximum potential. Students learn how to communicate and solve problems effectively, to accept personal responsibility and to respect themselves and others. Most importantly, they gain the self-esteem and competence needed to navigate the tough road from adolescence to adulthood. Medicine Bow is a 35 acre wilderness school tucked into the Chattahoochee National Forest in the mountains of north Georgia near Dahlonega. The owner and teacher, Mark Warren, guides his students toward their own unique relationship with nature through the Earthlore accumulated by the Native Americans. Through the classes of Medicine Bow nature takes on new values as the source of food, medicine, craft materials, fire, tools, shelter and primitive weaponry. Learning through the patient methods of the American Indians, students encounter a vast academic growth as well as a spiritual one. Medicine Bow Adventure Camp for both boys and girls 10 and older wanting a broader spectrum of activities, survival skills, learning plants and their uses, tomahawk & knife throwing, archery, fire creation, games, hikes … By request, I have started offering summer camps dedicated just to the skill and adventure of Archery.  Pardon the boast, but there is no archery program like this one. I pour my 25 years of experience into the best instruction I have yet experienced in any other camp or school. But this serious teaching is balanced by games of adventure, quickness, and discretion such as were practiced in Native American communities as well as in Sherwood Forest.   Sunshine Mountain Butterfly Farm offers magical Monarch butterfly releases for any special event. Our beautiful Monarch butterflies are raised in the Western North Carolina Mountains and can be shipped anywhere east if the Continental Divide. School Tours of our Butterfly Farm are available This is a new popular tradition that will be unforgettable!   The Learning Center!   A North Carolina Charter School located in Murphy North Carolina.   TLC Montessori Preschool in Murphy North Carolina, preparing children to be the best they can be. Fishing as a Pathway to Nature Junior Ranger Program Junior Ranger Events for Kids Mountain Adventure and Family Fun Horseback Riding in the Mountains Mountain History, Learn About the Mountains Myths and Legends, Read about the Fairy Crosses Book Reviews Gatlinburg Christmas Lights for Kids

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