Limited Edtition Field Guide to Whisper Mountain Now Available
The on-line version of A Field Guide to Whisper Mountain is now available as a soft cover bound edition and is available to interested parties at Whisper Mountain. The guide offers technical information and fascinating facts about the flora and fauna found at Whisper. From butterflies and birds to trees and flowers, the gently illustrated...
Highest Elevation Home Sites Released
Three new home sites were just released at Whisper Mountain. These East and South facing home sites have thirty mile views to Mt. Pisgah, Mt. Mitchell and Cold Mountain. At times these tremendous properties actually sit above the clouds in a world of their own. From two to eight acres, their elevated positions at 3600′...
Labor Day weekend at Whisper Mountain
Labor Day weekend at Whisper Mountain found the air ringing with the laughter of our new residents Bob and Wanda Wertzberger’s grandchildren. They spent time hiking the trails along Whisper Creek, exploring the community lodge and even spending a night at the tent camp. With pristine weather that showed off views to Mount Mitchell to...
Whisper Mountain’s Newest Homeowners
Meet Bob and Wanda Wertzberger, our newest members to the Whisper Mountain community. They are the proud new owners of the charming and rustic Homestead Cabin. The Wertzberger’s reside in Marietta , GA but have always had a fondness for this area. The Homestead Cabin will be a vacation home for them. We are thrilled...
Winner of the 2009 Southern Living Choose Your Home Giveaway
Charlie and I are so excited that Whisper Creek was selected to be the winning home of the 2009 Southern Living Choose Your Home Giveaway. It makes us feel very good that so many people voted to win our beautiful cabin at Whisper Mountain. Over 5.4 million entries were cast in this sweepstakes. Whisper Mountain...
Video Enjoyment: Whisper Mountain, the arts, the area, the land
Watch the videos: Living in Asheville Get to know more about life in the beautiful town of Asheville, North Carolina. Art in Asheville Enjoy the beautiful local artwork in galleries and museums in the area. Explore the Whisper Mountain community Discover what the Whisper Mountain community has to offer, including the trails, the views, and...
Penny Hawkes from Louisiana Wins the Southern Living Choose Your Home Giveaway
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Birmingham, AL (August 4, 2009) – Penny Hawkes from LaPlace, La., has won the vacation home of her dreams in the Southern Living Choose Your Home Giveaway presented by MyHomeIdeas.com. “I didn’t think it was real when I got the phone call, I thought one of my friends was playing a joke,”...
Meet the Choose Your Home Giveaway Winner!
This article appeared on southernliving.com Meet Penny Hawkes, the lucky winner of our Choose Your Home Giveaway Sweepstakes. Penny Hawkes received the best 50th birthday present ever. (Officially, it’s August 24th.) Winner of the MyHomeIdeas.com and Southern Living Choose Your Home Giveaway, this lucky entrant chose the Whisper Mountain’s Whisper Creek Cottage for herself, her...
63rd Reunion of Marshall High School
A clear, bright August day at Whisper Mountain played host to four members of the Marshall High School graduating class of 1945 who gathered here for their 63rd reunion. Accompanied by family and guests, the celebrants, including Fred Graham, Forrest Jarrett, Mary Sprinkle, and Harry Woodson, met at the Sky Valley Lodge. The festivities began...
Whisper Mountain’s Organic Community Garden
According to the American Heritage Dictionary online the words “Conserve” and “preserve” mean to protect from loss or harm; to maintain in safety from injury, peril or harm; to keep in perfect or unaltered condition, unchanged or intact; to use carefully or sparingly to avoid waste, to keep constant through physical, chemical or evolutionary changes....
Health Care Access in Asheville is Top Notch
It’s good to know that one of the nation’s leading heart hospitals is right here in Western North Carolina, at Mission Hospital. Mission Hospital is about a 40-minute drive from Whisper Mountain, and located in the heart of Asheville. Mission is Known in Western North Carolina and Beyond Mission Hospital is not just known in...
The Intersection of Appalachian Mountain Heritage and Green Living
The history of the settlers of Madison County in North Carolina includes the Sandy Mush towns, Trust and Luck, a short distance down from Whisper Mountain. Generations of rural Appalachian families have been living on the land in Trust and Luck since the time of the Civil War, and even before this, in post Revolutionary...