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Obscura Day Summer 2025: Hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains
Obscura Day is an Atlas Obscura tradition where the whole team takes a day off to explore—whether it’s a nearby hidden gem or a distant, wondrous site. Check out the places our team visited. Johanna Mayer, Senior Producer I was in North Carolina for a music festival, so I decided to explore some of the nearby natural wonders in the jaw-dropping Blue Ridge Mountains. After hiking through mountai…
jagged cliff towers 4,000 feet above sea level