What You'll Love

  • Ride Through Railroad History
  • Explore Saluda’s Stories
  • Sip Local Foothills Wines
  • Uncover Tryon’s Past
  • Visit Historic Landmarks
  • Experience Western North Carolina

Carolina Foothills Tours offers guided experiences highlighting the history, communities, and wine country of Western North Carolina’s foothills. Locally rooted tours connect visitors with regional stories and distinctive destinations.

Saluda Rail Adventures explores the area’s railroad heritage. The tour includes Iron Key Brewing, the Saluda Depot Museum, a historic boarding house, and downtown Saluda.

It’s Wine O’Clock explores the Tryon foothills’ grape-growing legacy with options to visit two or three wineries. The tour combines local wine and regional history.

Tryon Tales Tour shares stories from Tryon’s past, including connections to Nina Simone and Eleanor Roosevelt, while highlighting the town’s history and character.

Collage with the Carolina Foothills Tours logo in the center, surrounded by photos of a historic depot, Iron Key building, a quaint storefront street, a vineyard, and rolling hills.