Creston, NC

Located about 4 hours from our home in Halifax, VA it's 2 hours away from any big city (Winston-Salem, NC and Johnson City, TN) but close to Boone, NC - a neat adventure type town.  I think all the pre-cut Christmas Trees on this side of the nation come from Creston and surrounding areas.  They operate tree farms on the scale that Halifax has it's tobacco farms (or used to anyway).  It's in the mountains, cold, winding, scary roads but very pretty.  There's a town nearby - Jefferson  and also West Jefferson that is just 20 minutes and provides us with things we might need.