It’s about 3 hours from Atlanta, almost 5 hours from Nashville, 1.5 hours from Gatlinburg (near the Cades Cove area in Great Smoky Mountains NP), and an hour from Asheville, NC.

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In 2020, the majority of Western North Carolina was expected to be at or near peak fall foliage between Oct. 5 and Oct. 12. The year before that, the peak was slated to arrive closer to Nov. 2.

Early Sunday, wind-chills lows are expected to hit 3 degrees near Boone and 8 degrees near Burnsville as wind gusts top out at 45 mph throughout the mountains, the National, Weather Service said.