Murphy NC - Two Hours From Everywhere

Welcome to Murphy, North Carolina - we're two hours from everywhere! That's how we describe our corner of the beautiful Smokey Mountains. And we're not just measuring driving distance when we say that.

Yes, it's true that we're two hours from Atlanta, Chattanooga and Knoxville. We're two hours from Asheville, North Carolina. We're two hours from Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, with Dollywood, dinner theatres and outlet malls aplenty.

In two hours, you can be at Hartsfield, the busiest airport in the country. Or at Hamilton Place, the largest mall in Tennessee. Or at the Biltmore Estate, the biggest privately owned home in the United States.

But those of us who have chosen to make our homes here, whether full time or only for those precious vacation days, look at those two hours a little differently. We're two hours from traffic jams and endless boulevards crammed with strip malls. We're two hours from lives filled with stress and days filled with mindless tasks.

In two hours you can be halfway downstream feeling the exhilaration of fighting white water rapids with a raft full of strangers. In two hours, they're not strangers anymore. You'll show the group photo to all your friends and talk about how Marilyn from New Jersey nearly went overboard on that last drop and you had to grab her jacket and hang on to her.

In two hours, you can be exploring a path made by the Ancient Ones through the silence of a 400 year old forest, the only piece of land east of the Mississippi that looks the way it did before the Pilgrims set foot on shore at Plymouth. You'll lock arms with your kids and still won't be able to circle the massive trunks.

In two hours, you can stain your fingers blue picking a pail half full of wild blackberries and come upon a doe with twin fawns or a bald eagle soaring silently over the ridge, heading for its nest.
I'll be filling this Murphy NC blog with comments on the changing real estate market, local news and events, stories of life in a small mountain town - maybe even some juicy gossip now and then! I hope it will give you a taste of what you'll find if you come here for a visit...or a lifetime.
Warm regards,
Kate

Looking for your dream getaway in the mountains of Murphy, North Carolina? Visit the country homes and land website to see all the latest listings. Enjoy a preview of our scenic mountains in the YouTube video Murphy Mountain Nights