High Country Host Launches New Website for Visitors

BOONE, N.C. – Tourists interested in the North Carolina High Country have a dynamic new resource for visitor info thanks to a redesign and upgrade of High Country Host’s website, www.MountainsofNC.com.
The new site contains information on lodging, attractions, festivals, shopping, restaurants, heritage events and outdoors activities. There is also a blog, calendar of events, a section for specials & deals, High Country maps and a downloadable vacation planner.

“This new site pulls together all the key information visitors need to plan a trip to the High Country,” says Millie Barbee, executive director of High Country Host. “And, it is user-friendly. There are multiple ways of navigation to quickly find what you’re looking for.”

Big Boom Design of Asheville created the site using a Joomla platform. It incorporates the latest in web technology with an emphasis on search engine optimization.

“Our desire was to build a site that’s easy to navigate and brings as much information to the surface as possible,” said Boomer Sassmann of Big Boom Design. “This is a well organized second-generation website that also incorporates social media aspects such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.”

The look and feel of the website will change quarterly to match the four distinct seasons that draw visitors to the High Country. “If this were a traditional website, we wouldn’t be able to do that,” Sassmann says, “but because of this platform, it is easy to change the look without altering the content.”The North Carolina High Country is a five-county region anchored by the popular towns of Banner Elk, Blowing Rock, Boone, Linville, Sparta, West Jefferson and Wilkesboro. The High Country includes more than 100 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

To view the new site, go online to www.MountainsofNC.com.