Plan your trip to Georgia's Blue Ridge, and save it in your Highlander Backpack...
Benefits of using the Highlander Backpack program...
By saving destinations to your Backpack, you will have them ready for your trip. While you are on your journey, you can pull up your backpack on a laptop, a tablet or your phone, and have a photo, information, GPS coordinates and a link to a Google map for each destination chosen. Why waste time on your trip looking up destinations while on the road when you can bring them with you and save time.
How to Create a Backpack
Let's get Started...
If you haven't done so already, sign up for a backpack, using this link. Rest assured that we will not email you or share your email, you are strictly creating an account to store your choices in. Your user name will be your email address, don't forget to use a secure password, with upper and lower case letters, at least one number and one symbol.
How to Add "Chosen Destinations" to "Your Backpack"...
Note there is a Backpack image in the upper left corner within each destination, along with a + Add to my Backpack. All you have to do is click it and it will go into "Your Backpack". If you haven't signed up for an account, or signed in your account, you will be prompted to do so.
How to Remove "Chosen Destinations" from "Your Backpack"...
Should you change your mind, or want to plan another trip, just go to "Your Backpack" and click - Remove from my Backpack , and you will be able to remove any or all destinations you chose.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me and ask.
Welcome Center
+ Add to my backpack
Fannin County Welcome Center
Surround yourself with beauty, relaxation and natural fun in Georgia's Blue Ridge. Blue Ridge is located on the North Carolina – Tennessee line, only 1.5 hours north of Atlanta via I-575, within easy reach of the best attractions in the mountains of north Georgia, western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
Our welcome center is open for you to supply you with brochures, maps and helpful information to make your visit the best you will ever have.
152 Orvin Lance Drive • Blue Ridge, GA. 30513 • 706.632.5680
www.BlueRidgeMountains.com
Monday through Friday - 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. • Sunday - 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Latitude: 34.874994934° 52' 29.98'' N
Longitude: -84.298996684° 17' 56.39'' W
Elevation: 483.91 m
Featured Galleries, Shopping Theater
+ Add to my backpack
BRMAA - Art Center
Over 500 Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association member artists showcase their work at The Art Center in one of our numerous galleries: Mark Mahan Gallery, Lobby Gallery, Richard Low Evans Gallery, Studio Gallery, Piano Gallery, Atrium Gallery, John & Evelyn Branch Gallery, and the Ballet Gallery.
With over 2500 artworks on display, The Art Center has become a major gallery in the North Georgia Mountains. We are the “Galleries on West Main.”
10am - 4pm Tuesday - Thursday • 10am - 6pm
Friday & Saturday • Closed Sunday & Monday
420 West Main Street • Blue Ridge, GA 30513
706.632.2144 • blueridgearts@gmail.com • BlueRidgeArts.net
Latitude: 34.863742034° 51' 49.47" N
Longitude: -84.326926084° 19' 36.93" W
Elevation: 532.18 m
+ Add to my backpack
Blue Ridge Community Theater
Blue Ridge Community Theater invites you to
"Come Out and Play"
Blue Ridge Community Theater has been producing theater for 15 years and bought their own building in 2008 in order to better serve the community. Our theater has 171, all new extra wide theater seats and we’re concessions friendly— all new seats with cup holders.
2015 we will be hosting 7 Main Stage shows and 12 performances for each show, 13 evenings of music along with 13 Sunny D Performance, our Children's Theater Program.
2591 East First Street • Blue Ridge, GA 30513
706.632.9223 • info@blueridgecommunitytheater.com
Latitude: 34.852476034° 51' 8.91'' N
Longitude: -84.331727084° 19' 54.22'' W
Elevation: 523.74 m
Featured Lodging
+ Add to my backpack
Cuddle Up Cabin Rentals
Escape and relax in one of our privately owned cabin rentals in the Blue Ridge, North Georgia Mountains. Or enjoy one of our luxury North Georgia cabin rentals on the Ocoee River in Tennessee or near Lake Blue Ridge in North Georgia.
Cuddle Up Cabin Rentals offers luxury North Georgia cabin rentals for family vacations, group visits or just a quiet Georgia mountain retreat. We provide the perfect accommodations for your visit to our Blue Ridge Georgia Mountains, the Ocoee River and Toccoa River or Lake Blue Ridge.
224 Blue Ridge Drive • McCaysville, GA 30555
706.964.6032 • keriwilliams@etcmail.com
Latitude: 34.863742034° 51' 49.47'' N
Longitude: -84.326926084° 19' 36.93'' W
Elevation: 532.18 m
Featured Realtors
+ Add to my backpack
Country Corners Realty
Welcome to Country Corners Realty in the North Georgia Mountains. We are located just north of Blue Ridge, Georgia (The Gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains). You will find all your real estate needs here. We offer mountain log cabins, view property, river and creek property, lake front homes and property and large tracts of North Georgia Mountain Property.
224 Blue Ridge Drive • McCaysville, GA 30555
706.964.6470 • info@realestate-northgeorgia.com
www.Realestate-NorthGeorgia.com
Latitude: 34.863742034° 51' 49.47'' N
Longitude: -84.326926084° 19' 36.93'' W
Elevation: 532.18 m
Lake Blue Ridge
+ Add to my backpack
Lake Blue Ridge - Fannin County Georgia
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Boating, fishing and other watersports bring a steady flow of seasonal visitors to the 3,290 acre lake with over 100 miles of Lake Blue Ridge shoreline. Summer homes, as well as year-round residences occupy some of the Lake Blue Ridge shores. There are several boat ramps, a public swimming and picnic areas. Blue Ridge reservoir is 11 miles long and has 65 miles of shoreline, 25 percent of which is developed, 80 percent of the shoreline on Lake Blue Ridge is in the Chattahoochee National Forest, managed by the USDA Forest Service.
Forest service recreation areas include the Lake Blue Ridge Campground, off Aska Road in Blue Ridge, which has 90 campsites, a picnic area, boat ramp and loop trail along the lake shore. Morganton Point Campground, in Morganton, features a public swimming area, along with 43 campsites, picnic tables and pavilion and a boat ramp. Another boat ramp is available at Lakewood Landing near Morganton.
Latitude: 34.861690034° 51' 42.08'' N
Longitude: -84.257733084° 15' 27.84'' W
Elevation: 517.70 m