Foothills Digest

Have you eaten at The Bluffs? It's at Doughton Park on the Parkway, and if you haven't, you must. If you have, I won't need to try very hard to convince you, so let's go!

The Bluffs-A Wonderfully Nostalgic Restaurant - Foothills Digest There’s a place tucked into the curves of the Blue Ridge Parkway that makes us giddy every time we head north. As soon as we pass Milepost 241 and pull into the gravel lot beside Doughton Park, we start smiling. Because The Bluffs isn’t just a restaurant — it’s our restaurant. Our favorite o...

We were gobsmacked by Susan Owen's pawpaw orchard. We think you will be too.

In the Holler Where the PawPaws Grow - Foothills Digest You can see the mountains from Susan Owen’s porch—blue layers rising soft and wide like folds in a quilt. Her cabin, a two-century-old structure rescued from the other side of Watauga County, sits like it belongs there, not just placed on the land but carved into it. Every corner of the home has...