North Carolina Vacations
Numerous people may want to have vacations in the USA state of North Carolina. Some may want to see the culture, sports, tourist attractions and society of the state. Some may want to tour the coastal regions of the state. Some may want to see the mountains. Some may want to see the rural regions or the urban regions. Some may want to stay at cheap or luxury accommodation in the region. Some may want to stay at cabins, cottages, houses, apartments and villas in the region.
Numerous people may want to have vacations in the USA state of North Carolina.
North Carolina is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties and its capital is Raleigh.
North Carolina was one of the original Thirteen Colonies, originally known as Carolina. Joara, a native village near present-day Morganton, was the site in 1567 of Fort San Juan, the first Spanish colonial settlement in the interior of what became the United States. A colony was later established at Roanoke Island, the first attempt by the English to found a settlement in the Americas.
On May 20, 1861, North Carolina was the second to last of the Confederate states to secede from the Union. It was readmitted on July 4, 1868. The state was the location of the first successful controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, by the Wright brothers, at Kill Devil Hills, about 6.4 miles from Kitty Hawk in 1903.
North Carolina has a wide range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to almost 6,700 feet in the mountains. The climate also ranges widely from subtropical in the coastal tidewater and piedmont to subarctic in the western mountains. The coastal plains are strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a subtropical highland climate.
The Blue Ridge, or Blue Ridge Mountains, is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division. The province consists of the Northern and Southern physiographic sections, which divide near the Roanoke River gap. They are a mountain chain in the eastern United States, part of the Appalachian Mountains, forming their eastern front from Georgia to Pennsylvania. To the west of the Blue Ridge, between it and the bulk of the Appalachians, lies the Great Valley, bordered on the west by the Ridge and Valley province. The mountains are well known for their bluish color when seen from a distance. Trees put the "blue" in Blue Ridge, from the hydrocarbons released into the atmosphere, thereby contributing to the characteristic haze on the mountains and their distinctive color.
Within the Blue Ridge province, there are two National Parks: the Shenandoah in the northern section and the Great Smoky Mountains in the southern section. The Blue Ridge also contains the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469 mile long scenic highway that connects the two parks and is located along the ridge crestlines along the Appalachian Trail.
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