This Summer From Highgate: The Plateau's Openings, Concerts, And Garden Days
At 4,500 feet on the Grayrocks ridge, the Highgate morning is a quiet one. Rock walls hold their coolness past nine. The spring-fed ponds down in The Hemlocks catch first light through hemlock. If you never left the community, you would not know that the plateau below is running one of the densest summer calendars in western North Carolina.
That contrast is the point of this post. Highgate's elevation and its gated remove buy the kind of quiet that most second-home markets sell as a promise and rarely deliver. What they do not do is isolate you from the season. A short drive puts a resident at the head of a circuit that runs six nights a week from late June through early September, and the calendar is dense enough this year that most weeks reward planning by day of the week rather than by event.
Four anchors do most of the work for a Highgate summer. Downtown Highlands sits a few minutes down the mountain, with The Bascom on Franklin Road, Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park on Pine Street, and Main Street's restaurant row all within a compact walkable core once you park. Cashiers, roughly ten miles east on Highway 64, adds The Village Green Commons on Frank Allen Road. The Highlands Biological Station, at 930 Horse Cove Road, tucks in behind town with the plateau's field-science calendar. The Highlands Plateau Greenway threads all of it, and its Bowery Road segment is essentially the front porch of the Highgate corridor.
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