Population: 13,000
Percent single: 63.8%
Strap on your skis, zip up your parka and head down the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains at this lovely slice of the rustic South. Home also to Appalachian State University, part of the University of North Carolina, Boone is hot fun in the summertime, when live bluegrass takes over and you can catch a presentation of "Horn in the West," a biographical dramatization of the town's namesake: a guy named Daniel who regularly made camp here.
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