Awakened as temperatures cool and leaves change colors, many Georgians head to the mountains, and to this town just a pretty five-hour drive away. Though Blowing Rock is particularly popular in the fall, it’s also a year-round destination. Come fall, the scene along the Blue Ridge Parkway, just outside of Blowing Rock, changes into a feast of reds, yellows and oranges. The parkway will celebrate 75 years in 2010. At 4,000 feet in North Carolina’s “High Country,” it sits astride the Eastern Continental Divide, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, and from the top of Blowing Rock (yes, there really is one), you’ll view gorgeous scenery.