County seat: Elizabethton
Carter County
Roan Mountain's grassy balds and rhododendron gardens, Watauga Lake's clear water, and Sycamore Shoals, where the Overmountain Men mustered, make Carter County the region's outdoor and frontier-history core.
Anchor experiences
Outdoors
Roan Mountain State Park
Grassy balds at 6,000 feet and June rhododendron blooms.
History
Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park
Where the Overmountain Men mustered in 1780.
Outdoors
Watauga Lake
Appalachia's clearest lake, ringed by national forest.
Also in Carter County
- · Roan Mountain State Park
- · Watauga Lake
- · Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park
- · Elizabethton Covered Bridge
- · Appalachian Trail