Brings back many memories to me. We loved Ghost Town In the Sky. Once when my kids were 2, 5 & 8 we had gone up to the top & after a few hours the sky turned really dark just suddenly & we decided to head down to the bottom & a lot of other people did the same thing. Finally we got our turn, my boys ages 5 & 8 wanted to ride the chair lift down & my husband & I didn't want our little girl on the chair left because she was only 2. They begged & begged but I didn't let her ride with them. Thank God! A tremendous thunder storm hit right after we started down. Lightening everywhere, hard hard rain & the wind was whipping the chair lift chairs all around. My husband & I was in the trolley & lost sight of them. Suddenly the electricity went off!!! Somehow they got the trolley car on down but that left my two small boys out in that vicious storm just hanging there because the lift lost total power. They were way high up off the ground & my 5 year old kept telling his 8 year old brother they could jump down, huge rocks underneath them, they were both scared to death & wanted down to be with their parents. The younger one set into crying as loud as he could, the older was trying to be the best big brother & protect him. Thankfully when they finally got the lift started again, the storm mostly over, they got to the bottom with us & their little sister, they were soaking wet, blue, teeth chattering but a sweet young newly Wed couple who was right behind them kept screaming at them to hold on tight & DO NOT jump. They felt terrible for them but couldn't really help except to keep trying to communicate with them, they had to scream to be heard. We met them when they finally got down & also met that amazing, very young newly Wed couple who had done their best to comfort two little terrified boys. We hugged them & thanked them for trying to help but mostly for telling the five year old to listen to his brother, hold on the only bar holding them in & hang on to each other. I went to the bathroom & pulled off the hand towels, yes real towels in a machine, you pulled them down, dried your hands & the next person did the same. I needed something to dry my little two year old off with & wrap her up until we could get to our car. I ripped it all off, sorry, not! The temperature had dropped drastically too so we were all wet & freezing. Those three "kids" are now 49, 45 & 42 but we still talk about that story & we have a picture of the two boys on the chair left as the innocently headed down that mountain before all hell broke loose. God was good, he was with us. I didn't hear of any injuries that day but there very well could have been. My husband & are headed up to the mountains, Highlands NC for a week to stay in my middle son's vacation home, the then 5 year old who wanted to jump. We are going to drive to see fall foliage everywhere & I want to go back to Maggie Valley just to see it. I wish Ghost Town were still open. I'd love to take my husband, who I've been with almost twenty years, to see Maggie Valley. He hears the story often when the kids are ever together & he'd love to see it. Thank you for this video. I wonder if anybody who reads my story might have been there that day. I'd love to meet the young newly Wed who helped keep my son for jumping off to climb the rocks to the bottom. Sadly I've forgotten their names but to us they were God's Angel's that day.

Looks really nice, very peaceful little town. Reminds me of my childhood.

So beautiful and vintage there! The mountains has always been an exhilaration for me!

The first time I saw Maggie Valley it was like heaven.

We are heading down that way for a week of motorcycling. Maggie Valley will be out home base each day! Thanks for the video. It's beautiful there!

@andrebethune394

5 жыл бұрын

Same here! Next week

Love this.. thanks!✌️

This place is SOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!

Love this place❤❤❤❤

Thank you for the tour I love all of your vedios

@KitschyTravels

6 жыл бұрын

Ross Egan Jr thank u so much!

@rosseganjr9402

6 жыл бұрын

KitschyTravels you make my day brighter watching your trips

@KitschyTravels

6 жыл бұрын

Awww thank you, you don't know how much that means to me :)

Such a wonderful place

@KitschyTravels

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is!

My grandpa and my grandma live in Maggie Valley

Cool, I might be in NC this summer so it's nice to see your vids :)

@KitschyTravels

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy! I got ton of them and playlists!

If you lived there you wouldn't love it...weather there sucks, year round, but especially in the winter

@KitschyTravels

4 жыл бұрын

Eddie Dawkins I'm in Asheville so yeah...

it's so pretty xx

Thanks for the drive-by tour. We will be there over New Years for a week. Where do you recommend to eat at?

@KitschyTravels

5 жыл бұрын

S Williams For Breakfast, Joey’s Pancake House!

You need to go down to Joeys Pancake house and get you some awesome food!

@KitschyTravels

7 жыл бұрын

Southern Food Junkie i have been there before, it was good!

@SouthernFoodJunkie

7 жыл бұрын

Yes I have done a review on it too. I love it.

@jessejames9155

5 жыл бұрын

@@SouthernFoodJunkie just breakfast? Where in the area can we find good southern farm fare?

Looks kinda depressing actually

Enjoyed your video. I think you could’ve made it even better if you would’ve stopped looked around a bit at an interesting place or two.

@KitschyTravels

3 жыл бұрын

Something like that is coming soon :)

Joeys is gone😢😢😢

@jessejames9155

5 жыл бұрын

@NORTH CAROLINA-GEO WATCH going to Maggie Valley at the end of July. Where is the best farm style cookin?

@jessejames9155

5 жыл бұрын

@NORTH CAROLINA-GEO WATCH thanks, going for the Jamboree.. Any good swimmin holes for the kids Sir ?