Getting Here · The Crosby/Billings Cabin

Your phone stops working past Junaluska Road.

Cell service ends shortly after you leave Andrews and head up Junaluska Road — well before the cabin. Print this page or screenshot it before you leave town. GPS will get you to Andrews; this sheet gets you the rest of the way.

Andrews — last stop for everything.

Signal · Gas · Groceries · Coffee

Top off the tank, grab groceries, download your music and maps. If you need anything from the modern world, Andrews is where you get it. Main Street has coffee and a butcher; the Andrews Chamber keeps a list of what's open and what's on.

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Junaluska Road — up and out.

Signal fades here · stay the course

From Andrews, take Junaluska Road up out of the valley. The road climbs and winds — beautiful, paved, and slower than the map thinks. Your bars will fall off one by one. That's the unplugging starting early.

— To be filled in by the Billings — Exact turn from Main Street, mileage on Junaluska, landmarks worth noting (churches, farms, the spot people miss). Jim & family: write it the way you'd tell a friend riding shotgun.

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The Nantahala Shores gate.

Code from your arrival letter · 15 MPH inside

At the gate, punch in the code from your arrival letter. From here the speed limit is 15 — strictly kept, and worth keeping; the road is shared with neighbors, dogs, and the occasional deer that thinks it owns the place.

— To be filled in by the Billings — Distance/turns from the Junaluska turn-off to the gate; anything tricky about finding the entrance.

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The cabin — up the rise, on the right.

1005 Nantahala Shores · look for the basset crossing sign

Follow the community road up the rise. The cabin sits on the right side of the road — green siding, wraparound deck, a small "Basset Xing" sign by the steps. Park in the gravel pull-in. The door code from your letter works the moment your stay begins.

— To be filled in by the Billings — Final approach details: which fork, how far past the gate, what guests tend to miss in the dark.

If You Get Turned Around

Don't burn daylight hunting for bars. Head back down toward Andrews until signal returns — usually within the first stretch of Junaluska — and call us. Better yet: print this sheet and hand it to your navigator before you leave town.

Arriving After Dark

The community keeps exterior lighting low by design, and the gravel sounds different at night. Take the last stretch slow. The porch light will be on for you — it's the only one you'll see.