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Waynesville is climbing! 🙌 It's currently #4 in USA Today’s Best Main Street — let’s keep the momentum going. Vote DAILY and help us bring it home! 🏆
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03/01/2026

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01/07/2026

The Buttered Biscuit in Waynesville, North Carolina is a go-to breakfast spot in the Western North Carolina mountains, and the smell of fresh biscuits hits you the moment you step inside. The biscuits are large, golden, and soft, served plain, buttered, or stuffed with sausage, country ham, fried bologna, or covered in sausage gravy. Breakfast is served all day, so you can order your favorites anytime. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., lunch plates come out, including meatloaf and country-fried steak. The popular “Country Folks” plate piles eggs, hashbrowns, and ham under a biscuit smothered in gravy. Portions are generous, prices are fair, and the place has a true small-town feel that locals love.

01/07/2026

The Changing Forests of Haywood, from The Haywood Snapshot Project

Haywood County sits in the heart of an extremely diverse ecosystem with more than 130 species of trees. Early explorers and settlers marveled at the magnificent forests of oak and chestnut whose trees grew to 100 feet or taller. However, this landscape would soon come to change.

With the arrival of the railroad in the 1880s and steam-powered technology like the narrow-gauge Shay locomotive, large-scale logging was able to reach deep into Haywood’s virgin territories. Development happened fast: as early as 1905, much of these once-wildlands had been harvested. As one observer wrote, “....a considerable portion of the forest is [now] second growth.”

Industrial logging combined with early farming techniques on steep slopes would come to cause much of the erosion of Haywood County’s rich topsoil. Around the same time, a vicious blight would see to the end of the American Chestnut, the dominant canopy tree that had constituted 30 or more percent of the area’s forest. What had once been classified as chestnut-heath would come to be categorized as oak-heath.

Photograph courtesy of The Haywood County Library Digital Collection. For more info, visit: https://www.haywoodsnapshotproject.com

01/07/2026

The little mountain town of Waynesville, North Carolina is home to the Haywood 209 Cafe, a small country diner that feels like a true local staple in the Western North Carolina mountains. Sitting right beside a gas station, this cozy spot surprises you the moment you walk inside. You’ll see chrome chairs, a dessert case filled with “Mamaw’s” homemade cakes and pies, and plenty of locals catching up over coffee. Breakfast plates come out hot and filling, with fluffy omelets, eggs cooked your way, and crispy chicken biscuits that keep folks coming back. Later in the day, the menu turns to comfort food like blackened catfish, juicy burgers, collard greens, and other down-home favorites. The service is friendly, the prices are fair, the portions are big, and everything about this diner feels warm, simple, and rooted in mountain life.