North Carolina
Choose between the east and the west to make the best of a holiday in North Carolina, which offers some lovely beaches and barrier islands on one side, and magnificent mountains on the other. In the west is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with its forests and rugged escarpments; the scenic Blue Ridge Parkwaymore provides spectacular vistas as it winds its way into Virginia. The Atlantic shoreline in the east offers resorts set among unspoilt sandy beaches and marshes running north from the port of Wilmington.