Highland Excursion

This Couples Tour is highly customizable to give you the best of your couple celebration. Reserve an adventure vehicle for your Private Couples Tour and discover the best of Highlands and the surrounding Nantahala National Forest.

Enjoy our 2 hour, Private: Adventure for 3 – Reserve an Adventure vehicle for your private adventure and discover the best of Highlands, NC or Cashiers, NC and the surrounding Nantahala National Forest.

This private tour starts in Highlands and guests learn fun facts about Highlands then your back road adventure takes you to amazing vistas of surrounding mountains and local waterfalls in the Nantahala Temperate Rainforest.

Reserve a Pinzgauer (Mountain Horse) adventure vehicle for your private party and discover an adventurous way to see the best Highlands waterfalls, including Bridal Vail Falls, Dry Falls, and Glenn Falls. Book your Private Waterfall Tour online today!

This Private Secret Falls Hike is a relaxed three mile round trip hike (with some steep sections) to see Secret Falls, a 40 feet breathtaking waterfall in the Temperate Rain Forest. Book your hike online!

Reserve the Pinzgauer (Mountain Horse) for your private party and discover an adventurous way to get to know the surrounding Nantahala National Forest here on our Private Creation Tour! Book online today.

While all of our tours are kid friendly, this 2 hour private adventure tour is geared especially toward kids with an activity they love — gem mining! Book your private gem mine tour today!

While all of our tours are kid friendly, this 2 hour private Roller Coaster Tour is geared especially toward kids with an activity they love, riding a roller coaster. Book online! 

This Private Ellicott Wilderness Tour starts in Highlands, then your backroad adventure takes you to amazing vistas of surrounding mountains, including the pot-holes at the Iron Bridge over the Chattooga River, and Slick Rock Trail.

This Private Satulah Mountain Hike is a moderate hike (with some steep sections) to see spectacular views of four states! In winter, we stop along the way and brew coffee or hot chocolate over a wood fire.

In the Private Blue Valley Tour, we take you to scenic dirt roads to USFS Blue Valley Experimental Forest. We will stop along the way at Brooks Falls for s’mores over a real fire. Our open-air adventure vehicles will whisk you through the temperate rainforest back to Highlands, NC. Who knows — we may spot Big Foot crossing a dirt road!

Explore the Nantahala National Forest with a Private California Mountain Tour! Book your breathtaking tour online today.

Take scenic dirt roads to USFS Blue Valley Experimental Forest for a relaxed two mile round trip hike to see Picklesimer Rock House, a Civil War soldier’s hideout. Book your Private Picklesimer Rock House Hike online!

The Private Whiteside Mountain Hike is a perfect workout with the reward of amazing views. A moderate three mile hike with some steep trails and stairs. Book online!

Enjoy a relaxed 1/2 mile round trip walk (with 154 steps to an observation platform, optional) to see Whitewater Falls, the tallest Falls on the East Coast, at 411 feet. Book your Private Whitewater Falls Tour online today!

Private Devils Courthouse Hike — Our latest hike is a perfect workout with the reward of amazing views. Take on a difficult three mile hike challenge with some steep trails, several downed trees and dry creeks to cross.

Enjoy our 2 hour, Private wine tasting tour for up to 38 people: Reserve both the Pinzgauer (Mountain Horse) your private party leaves Highlands, to discover The Vineyard at High Holly.

The rainforest Hideout is nestled deep in the Ellicott Wilderness on a small private lake. Enjoy treehouse like setting in the Nantahala rainforest. This 3/2 house is the last house on a dirt road, it’s very quiet so you can enjoy the peace of nature, the breeze rustling the trees all around, or the rain on the tin roof.

Come Adventure with us!

Learn about the Nantahala Temperate Rainforest along the way. This tour is very scenic, fun, and easy for all ages, a great way to spend time with family and friends.

Come Adventure with us! This is a relaxed 2 mile round trip hike (with some steep sections) to see Ranger Falls, a 40 feet breathtaking waterfall in the Temperate Rain Forest.

Discover an adventurous way to get to discover the surrounding Nantahala National Forest and the Ellicott Wilderness area.