What is HighCountryVacations.com all about? Simply put - we love the mountains; just about any mountain, but specifically the mountains of the Southeast and mid-Atlantic.

Photo: Long exposure autumn photo of Blackwater Falls State Park near Davis, West Virginia (USA). Photo by Nicolas Raymond

From Garrett County, Maryland's Deep Creek Lake area to the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and West Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains and Gatlinburg, Tennessee to the Appalachian Mountain chain and Pisgah National Forest and Cherokee National Forest of North Carolina.

We love them all and as residents of the North Carolina mountains and frequent visitors to all the rest, we decided to make it our life-long goal to share many of the local favorite places to visit, stay, play and shop. We hope that you'll join us in celebrating our beautiful mountains by visiting often and by giving our sponsors your business.

While HighCountryVacations.com actually got its start in 2000, we are most known for the family or network of pro-tourism websites below.

HighCountryVacations.com has provided local recommendations for the best place to stay, eat, play and shop for all of the mountain communities of the Southeast and mid-Atlantic. Traffic comes from ad links on SkiSoutheast.com, ResortCams.com and organic rankings via Google.

ResortCams.com is probably our most notable (and most visited) website year-round as hundreds of television meteorologists show our Live Streaming webcams that we share of many of our favorite mountain communities of the Southeast and mid-Atlantic. You can people watch and even check out the lakes, ski resorts, favorite mountain towns, beaches and more.

SkiSoutheast.com covers the ski and snowboarding mountains of the region like no other resource. Several websites have come and gone since we began promoting and reporting on the snow-sports industry in our region back in 1996. Our 16 ski areas receive more than 2.2 million skier visits annually and no other website provides daily snow reports, snowfall totals, weather and news better than we do. We're ranked on Google for more than 9,900 search terms and we receive more than 750,000 visits and more than 3 million pageviews over the 150 +/- day season that runs from November through March.

HighCountryWeather.com is actually (30) weather stations that are located within all of the mountains that SkiSoutheast covers. Content is branded to the ski resort communities as we offer SnowshoeWeather.com, WispResortWeather.com, CanaanValleyWeather.com, SugarMountainWeather.com and many more!