Boone Travel and Tourism Guide

Now, we head further north through the Blue Ridge Mounains to Watuga County. Boone is yet another small town tucked away in the mountains. It is much larger than Murphy with well over 10,000 people (people are probably saying...you think that's big???) but smaller than Asheville. It was named after the famous pioneer Daniel Boone who supposedly set up camp in this area. There is an outside dramatization of the life and times of Daniel called "Horn in the West" which personally I thought was r...