The list nobody Instagrams. Where to grocery-shop on a Saturday afternoon. Which gas station's open at 11. Where the pharmacy is at six on a Sunday. The closest urgent care if the kid hits the dock the wrong way.
We list the boring stuff so the vacation works.
A full-service grocery store on NC Highway 9 in Lake Lure — a deli, bakery, meat and seafood counters, an in-store pharmacy, and a fuel station, right in town.
A 24-hour emergency room on South Ridgecrest Avenue in Rutherfordton, roughly twenty-five minutes from the lake — the Rutherford County hospital.