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The Great Southern Road Trip: Six Drives That Show You the Real South
Some of the South can only be understood from behind the wheel. These are six drives worth clearing a whole weekend for.
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Towns, landmarks, and the corners of the South worth the drive.
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Berea, Kentucky: The Town That Makes Things by Hand
A small Kentucky town organized around craft, anchored by a college where students earn a tuition-free education by learning the old Appalachian arts.
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Cades Cove: The Valley That Was Kept
A mountain valley in the Smokies where a whole community was bought out and moved so the place could be saved, and their empty cabins and churches still stand.
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Monroeville, Alabama: The Town That Became a Book A small Alabama town two childhood friends turned into American literature, where the courthouse from the most famous courtroom in fiction still stands. -
A Tale of Two Beauforts: North Carolina and South Carolina Same spelling, two pronunciations, two souls. One Beaufort works the Atlantic tides, the other drowses under Lowcountry oaks. -
Wetumpka, Alabama: The Town in the Crater A central Alabama river town sits inside a five-mile meteor crater, where the Coosa still rumbles past a downtown that kept its footing. -
Madison, Georgia: The Town Too Pretty to Burn A Georgia town with so much architecture still standing that walking it feels like stepping inside a question about what survives. -
Leiper's Fork: The Village That Decided Not to Grow Thirty minutes from one of America's fastest-growing cities, Leiper's Fork chose to stay what it was. Where Nashville goes to remember what it used to be. -
The Southern Town We Can't Stop Thinking About: Natchitoches, Louisiana The oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, where worn brick streets follow a river that stayed put, and the meat pies start arguments. -
The Southern Town We Can't Stop Thinking About: Apalachicola A small fishing town on Florida's Forgotten Coast, where the river still shapes daily life and the old oyster shucking houses still stand along the water. -
25 Southern Towns That Remind Us Why We Love the South From shrimp boats and courthouse squares to mountain overlooks and riverfront streets, twenty-five communities that capture the spirit of the American South.