Places to stay near attractions in Cashiers / Sapphire Valley

Cashiers and Sapphire Valley, North Carolina sit on the Highlands Plateau at 3,486 feet, 10 miles east of Highlands along U.S. 64. Cashiers is a crossroads village that grew up around the Zachary-Tolbert House and a network of Vanderbilt-era summer estates, and today it anchors a mix of high-end resorts (High Hampton, Chattooga Club, the Country Club of Sapphire Valley), waterfalls, and golf.

The area is best known for Whitewater Falls just to the south — at 411 feet, one of the tallest waterfalls east of the Rockies — and for Silver Run Falls, Rainbow Falls on the Horsepasture River, and the many named falls in the Panthertown Valley wilderness, sometimes called the Yosemite of the East. Panthertown's Salt Rock overlook and 6,000-acre backcountry make it one of the best day-hike destinations in WNC.

Sapphire Valley Ski Resort provides small-scale winter skiing and tubing on the plateau, and Lake Toxaway — the largest private lake in North Carolina — sits just to the east. Cashiers pairs naturally with Highlands and Brevard for a plateau waterfall weekend.