Cabin on Main - Burnsville NC

12/11/2025

We are in the Christmas spirit, and this little bit of snow helps! Nothing better than a warm cozy fire and the glow of the Christmas tree! 🎄

11/10/2025

11/05/2025

Such a cool attraction to swing by and see!

With the change of time, I always like to share this really cool roadside attraction in lovely Burnsville, NC. It's a vertical sundial designed as a quilt block, part of the quilt block trail throughout Mitchell and Yancey counties. It was put up on the Yancey Commons Times Journal, and has a lot of unique dates and times associated with it.
It was installed on March 19, 2010, the 100 year anniversary of the use of time zones, and dedicated on March 20, the first day of spring and national Quilting Day. The stars on the top depict the sky on the night of December 29, 1833, when Yancey County was founded. The three rows of numbers represent the olf local time, Eastern Standard Time, and Eastern Daylight Time. It also has the Equation of Time at the bottom. Sun time and clock time can fluctuate as much as 14 minutes, and the math is needed if you are looking for a more exact number. If it's cloudy, well...

10/30/2025

Such a great park for kids and only minutes from the cabin!

10/11/2025

🍁 One of our favorite times of the year! This tree always blows us away every year. Look how beautiful the color of this tree is in the front yard of Cabin On Main! 😍

10/06/2025

Look at this incredible picture that was taken from the Burnsville town square this morning! Absolutely stunning! 😍

09/27/2025

🫶🏼 what a beautiful picture to represent our community!

Our friends over at Something Special Gift Shop sent us this amazing picture tonight.
It couldn't be more fitting. Could. Not. Be.
Our hearts have been full this week working towards The Old Timey Fall Festival . Truly.
We are so honored to be a part of this great event, and are very much looking forward to the weekend. We plan to create an amazing Harvest Stroll through our beautiful Town Square, and hope you can join us for a bit.
However, we also live here. We've lived here a long time. This is our home, and we plan to keep it that way. We have deep roots in these communities and we are committed to remaining strong. We raise our kids and grandkids here. Our parents and grandparents are here. The Aunts and Uncles and all the cousins.
We have stood with our neighbors, our family and our people....as the storm ravaged us all. It's been hard. I mean, the HARD side of hard. The every day has been hard. Seems like it's often 1 step forward, and a landslide backwards. You have to live here to truly understand that.
We are resilient. We are strong. We are steadfast in our desire to move forward and rebuild.
We are grateful beyond measure for the generosity of good people from all over this country. We are truly humbled by the love that has been shown to us. It has been so kind. So helpful. So needed.
The fight is real. The determination and grit it takes to survive this thing is a daily struggle.
But you know what?
We've made it! We've made it this far. We are going to keep on keeping on. Keep on digging deep. Keep on finding strengths we didnt know we had.
We will rest when we must. We will start over again when we need to. We will hug our friends a little tighter. (Actually, a lot tighter. We know what it's like to go through these things together.) Hugs make things easier.
We are stronger together. We are better, together. We are driven to get our peole back in their homes, businesses back on their feet and communities back to a safe place❤️
The celebration is real for us this weekend. So is the trauma. The happiness is genuine. So is the panic, because it's raining again. The togetherness....it's solid. We love each other. We've been through it, together.
Through a LOT together.
There's much love that's been poured into our Main St Old Timey Days this year. Please know, it won't be the same as it's always been.
Close, but not exactly the same.
We aren't exactly the same. None of us.
We will do our best. Promise.
That's all we can really ask from anybody. Right?
Lynn Austin said it best tonight on Channel 13.
She said...just keep doing the next right thing. And then she said "Hang on. Better days are ahead. " Keep on keeping on, friends.
We are here for it!
Thankful for the rainbow.
Thankful for good friends, new and old.
Thankful for protection and provision from above.
Thankful we've made it!

09/15/2025

: has officially reopened as of Sept. 15, 2025 — just in time for leaf season! 🍂 Thanks to major recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene, visitors can once again enjoy the breathtaking views from the highest peak east of the Mississippi.

The reopening comes as the Blue Ridge Parkway reopens from Asheville (milepost 382) to just past the park entrance at milepost 355.3. The Parkway remains closed north of the park toward Little Switzerland, so visitors must access from the Asheville side. Be sure to fuel up before your trip — it’s a 70-mile round drive with no gas stations nearby.

Most trails in the park are open, though some remain closed in Pisgah National Forest. The restaurant and tent campsites are still closed, but the concession stand will be open on weekends and the gift shop is expected to open soon.

Plan ahead and check the latest updates on the NC State Parks blog: https://bit.ly/4n8fNLE

09/14/2025