Little Switzerland, North Carolina is the closest you can get to the Swiss Alps without booking a flight. Visitors enjoy curvy roads and waterfalls.

One of our most recent discoveries is the town of Little Switzerland just off the Blue Ridge Parkway between Boone and Asheville in western North Carolina.

This is the 630-foot-long Little Switzerland Tunnel (Milepost 333.4) on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The tunnels on the popular parkway tend to be filled with ice in the winter, officials say.

It had been 48 hours since the winds and rains from Hurricane Helene ripped through western North Carolina and Sam Perkins still had not heard from his parents, Chris and Randy Perkins.

Little Switzerland, North Carolina is the closest you can get to the Swiss Alps without booking a flight. Visitors enjoy curvy roads and waterfalls.

Little Switzerland, North Carolina is the closest you can get to the Swiss Alps without booking a flight. Visitors enjoy curvy roads and waterfalls.

Little Switzerland, North Carolina is the closest you can get to the Swiss Alps without booking a flight. Visitors enjoy curvy roads and waterfalls.