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Things to do in Sylva

Jackson County's brewery-dotted downtown beneath the iconic courthouse steps.

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Sylva's Main Street sits at the foot of the old Jackson County courthouse — 107 steps up to the most photographed building in the western mountains, now the library — and packs more into four blocks than towns twice its size: Innovation Brewing and Lazy Hiker's Sylva taproom, City Lights Bookstore, galleries, and a Saturday farmers market at Bridge Park on Scott's Creek, where the free Concerts on the Creek run on summer Friday evenings.

Western Carolina University is five miles down the road in Cullowhee, which means Catamounts football in the fall and Mountain Heritage Day, the region's big free celebration of Appalachian music, craft, and food, on the last Saturday of September. Dillsboro, next door, does the Lights & Luminaries walk in December. The Tuckasegee runs right through town — the fly-fishing is the point for a lot of people — and Pinnacle Park is the local hike. Discover Jackson County and Main Street Sylva keep the official lists.

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The big ones every year in Sylva

The events the calendar builds itself around — exact dates land in the feed above as each year's details firm up.