High country Shopping

A and W puts you right in the middle of High Country shopping at its finest! If you desire a day of shopping to break up all the outdoor activities on your Blue Ridge Mountain vacation, the High Country has all the shopping you could ask for. Tanger Outlets In Blowing Rock NC has over 30 brand name outlet stores, including Coach, Liz Claiborne, Nine West, Banana Republic, Gap, Izod, J. Crew, Ralph Lauren, and Bass, directly off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Tanger Outlets Blowing Rock NC offer seasonal specials such as the Tanger Cure Card that gives you special savings and 10% of the funds from the purchase of the card go to fighting cancer. AAA members can also often find special savings at the Tanger Outlet Blowing Rock.

Boone NC Shopping on King Street in downtown Boone NC has shops offering local craft items, antiques, furniture, clothing, App State memorabilia, books, and art in more than 20 unique stores including Mast General Store, and the old-fashioned Boone Drug Store. For a more conventional shopping experience, the Boone Mall includes Belk, JC Penney, TJ Maxx, and other specialty and local shops. The annual trade show of the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce and other festivals, shows, and holiday functions are often hosted in the Boone Mall.
 
Tanger Outlets Blowing Rock
US Highway 321
Blowing Rock, NC 28605
828-295-4444

Mast General Store

Home Office
Highway 194
Valle Crucis, NC 28691
828-963-6511

Emporium Shoppes at the Village

142 Main St E
Banner Elk, NC 28604
828-898-3378

Boone Mall
1180 Blowing Rock Rd.
Boone, NC 28607-4883
828-264-7286

The original Mast General Store is located in historic Valle Crucis. Opened in 1883, Charles Kuralt proclaimed the original Mast General Store “a destination". Take a magical step into the history of the High Country and learn why it was the center of commerce in the 1900s advertising and offering everything from “Quality Goods for the Living, Coffins & Caskets for the Dead". Children will delight in the old fashion candy shop and you can even mail a postcard home from the old fashioned post office in the Valle Cruics Mast General Store.

Little Switzerland NC offers a unique shopping experience in its one-of-a-kind main street center. Trillium Gallery offers American handcrafted jewelry, pottery, stained glass, wood, metal and other decorative artist crafts. The Gem Shoppe has gems, minerals and beautiful jewelry. Hearthside Handmades carries garden commodities, including birdfeeders and birdhouses. The shop carries many things for the garden, including rustic bark birdfeeders and birdhouses. Simple Pleasures gift shop features everything from t-shirts and to jewelry and glassware.

 

Come stay in the High Country and enjoy all the wonderful shopping and outdoor activities in Boone, Banner Elk and Valle Crucis. A and W Rentals features a unique variety of NC Mountain Cabin Rentals to fit you and your group's needs.

We invite you to view all of our rental properties and contact us by phone at 828.898.9188, e-mail us, or us or online request form to ask questions or request reservations.