Carl Sandburg Home & DuPont Forest Waterfalls

Carl Sandburg spent the last 22 years of his life at Connemara — a 264-acre farm in Flat Rock, North Carolina, 30 miles south of Asheville — writing the final volumes of his Lincoln biography and raising prize-winning Chikaming goats. The National Historic Site preserves the farmhouse exactly as it was when Sandburg died in 1967: his books still open on his desk, the hand-printed poetry manuscript pages on the bulletin board, the three sleeping porches where he would write through the night and rest during the day. The afternoon in Brevard — the 'Land of Waterfalls' county seat — covers the walkable downtown and Brevard Music Center, one of the premier summer classical music programs in the South. Day two is DuPont State Recreational Forest: three major waterfalls connected by forest trails and notably the location where The Hunger Games waterfall chase scenes were filmed.