Jonesville, NC

Riverwalk at Yadkin RV park is a great place to stay! The park is well maintained, it has a small beach by a man made irrigated pond, it is next to the Joneswille Greenway Trail, close to Stone Mountain and in the heart of North Carolina wine country! We went to Mount Airy where Andy Griffith was raised and the town has built a replica Mayberry RFD with Snappy Cafe, Floyd’s Barbershop, the sheriff office and jail, courthouse, motel, gas station and 1960 police cars! I think the cafe and barbershop were there before the TV show. Andy’s boyhood home is also there and it’s now an Air B&B. There is an Andy Griffith museum, which we did not go in. It’s a cute little town in the mountain foothills and very old, which has its charm. We went to Round Peak Vineyards, located in Mt Airy, and I had a flight of wine and Kevin had a craft beer. I primarily got the flight (versus a glass) for the souvenir wine glass - which is glass and not plastic! The wine was good, I was hesitant because they make a lot of sweet fruit wines in N.C. However the grapes are mostly Italian and French and the wines are dry.
We hiked Stone Mountain with Pepper and took the waterfall trail; which has 476 stairs built into the trail to get to the upper, middle and lower falls. The falls hike was 3 miles. Then we did a 1 mile hike to see the Hutchinson Homestead, built 165 years ago with Stone Mountain in the background. You can’t go into the buildings but the original house, outhouse and wood shed are still there. Four generations of the Hutchinson family lived there for 120 years. After returning to the RV for lunch and dropping Pep off we met Jessica and Colin at Laurel Gray winery, we met them at the campground the night we arrived. The vineyard was pretty with beautiful flowers in front and the mountains in the back. Kevin and I enjoyed a bottle of Merlot. On the way back we stopped at Shiloh General Store operated by the Amish. They have a lot of fresh canned, baked and bulk goods along with a deli and some packaged goods.
On Thursday, our last full day, we took a late afternoon walk with Pepper on the Overmountain Victory Trail in Elkin. It follows part of the route that NC men took to fight British loyalists during the American Revolution. It also follows where the Elkin & Allegheny RR tracks once were. And it also leads to downtown Elkin where Railyard Brewery is located! We had a few beers, watched the US Open on the outdoor TV, ate tacos from the food truck then walked the trail back to the car.もっと詳しく