Bryson City, North Carolina

Discover what’s great about Bryson City, NC, a peaceful mountain town bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Explore our unique shops, galleries, lodging and restaurants.

Surrounding our small town, there’s a rich vacation paradise — rafting and kayaking on the Nantahala River, boating and fishing on Fontana Lake, scenic railroad excursions, world class trout streams and mountain biking on the famous Tsali trails. We have creeks for tubing, trails for hiking and horseback riding, and beautiful waterfalls.

We’re home to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and neighbor to the Cherokee Indian Reservation. And we’re close by — just an hour west of Asheville and three hours north of Atlanta.