Since its founding in 1988 as the heart and soul of the Southern Appalachians, Blue Ridge Country magazine has explored the beauty, culture, and history of the cherished mountain regions of North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and South Carolina. This unique piece of America, sliced by the Appalachian Trail and centered by the Blue Ridge Parkway, is the home of people as friendly and welcoming as its great forests are green and majestic.
Blue Ridge Country’s international award-winning writers, editors and photographers are dedicated to transporting subscribers to the authentic and gentle, the breathtaking and unique. Small-town main streets and mountain streams are among subscriber’s favorite places; profiles include forgotten heroes and yesteryear scoundrels; a pie cooling on the windowsill and a picnic spread on a tablecloth at a scenic overlook among subscriber's favorite things to look upon. And it’s all presented with stunning photography richly printed on paper stock that serves so many of our subscribers practice of saving every issue to savor again and again.
- Demographics/Profile:
- Women: 57%
- Men: 43%
- Homeowners: 92%
- College Educated: 75%
- Married: 72%
- Average Household Income: $147,291
- Post Graduates: 34%
- Paid Active: 99.16% - 21,678
- Comps Active: 0.84% - 184
- 97% age 45+
- 54% live outside the Blue Ridge Mountains.
- 80% of magazine distribution is in the following states: FL, GA, MD, NC. SC, TN, VA, WV.
- Subscribers’ interests include: reading, gardening, cooking, photography, hiking, wildlife watching, antiquing, historical home tours, and going to museums.
|