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While mountain resorts are primarily known for picturesque skiing and snowboarding during winter months, summer tourism can be just as lucrative for business.
For more than 20 years, Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Somerset County has offered “Summer Adventures” to offseason guests, which include attractions such as the Alpine Slide, Alpine Tower, chairlift rides, rock wall and paddle boarding, among others.
This summer, Seven Springs also added the Foggy Goggle Axe House for axe throwing and the Trampoline Thing for guests to jump and flip up to 24 feet in the air. Another new attraction is Seven Springs Gem Mining, featuring geology and nature lessons where amethyst, rose quartz, emerald and other crystals can be found using a sifting tray in the sluice.
Yonder Mountain String Band, Twiddle, Keller & The Keels and
The Motet are among other 4848 Festival performers. Greensky Bluegrass will play two nights of the festival.
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Event organizers will go with a limited capacity for the on-sale to follow current state guidelines. Previously purchased tickets and room packages will be honored this September. Additional 2021 tickets and room packages go on sale this Friday, May 21 at 10 a.m. ET via the festival’s website and Eventbrite (GA/VIP).
4848 Festival made its debut in 2019. Last year’s festival was postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic.
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CAMP CREEK, W.Va. — To get to West Virginia State Parks’ newest remote lodging unit, you have to work for it. But judging from its popularity, it’s worth the effort.
/ Joe Parcell has been using the same simple hook to pull his cream candy for 20 years.
Traditional Appalachian pull candy sometimes called cream pull candy or Kentucky pull candy is known for two things: its buttery, melt-in-your mouth flavor and the painstaking process required to make the stuff.
The candy must include exact ratios of all the ingredients. It has to be cooked to an exact temperature for a precise amount of time.
Even the temperature outside must be perfect, lest the candy set up into a hard worthless mass.
This is why Joe Parcell of Winfield, West Virginia, won’t even attempt making candy unless the thermometer is below 50.