The Cliffs Valley recently welcomed members for the Seven! Food & Wine Event, bringing together culinary teams from all seven communities for a celebration of food, wine, and good company. From inspired dishes to thoughtfully selected wines, the event offered members a taste of the creativity and talent found throughout The Cliffs. Seven Communities, One […]

The Cliffs has been featured on “World’s Greatest,” airing on Bloomberg Television, offering a look inside one of the Carolinas’ most distinctive private club communities and the lifestyle that brings members together across the region. Set against the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Lake Keowee, The Cliffs is a collection of seven […]

A Residence Designed Around the View At 218 Hermitage Drive, the architecture begins with the view. This approximately 7,000-square-foot lakefront residence sits on 1.11 acres within the gated community of The Cliffs at Keowee Springs, with more than 171 feet of frontage on Lake Keowee and the Blue Ridge Mountains rising beyond the water. Designed […]

Building a Home at The Cliffs The release of Southridge at Walnut Cove gave buyers a fresh set of homesites to consider. For many, the next question is less about where to build and more about how. Some owners want to commission an architect and work with a builder from The Cliffs Preferred Builder Program. […]

Life in the Blue Ridge Mountains  Retirement can bring a lot of change, including how a home operates. The priorities that once guided a move, such as commute times to school districts, give way to different questions: how the seasons feel, who lives down the road, how easily a morning on the trail turns into […]

A New Way to Begin at The Cliffs  For many people drawn to buying a home at The Cliffs, the hesitation isn’t about wanting the lifestyle. It’s about timing. A new Shared Ownership Program at Keowee Springs offers a different way in: a deeded fractional share in a completed Cliffs Builders home, with scheduled access […]

Story by Hailey Wist | Photographs by Erin Adams   Before refrigeration, before the grocery store, before green beans arrived by cargo plane from Argentina, people in the Carolina mountains and foothills put food up. What you canned in July, you ate in January. Drying, smoking, salting, and canning allowed food to last beyond the […]

Story by Jill Payne The sun was already blazing as I drove down the gravel path to Hobbyknob Farmstead just outside Weaverville, North Carolina. The air carried the familiar sounds of livestock and poultry. I turned down the folk music on the radio as the owner stepped outside to greet me. The landscape—rolling hills, wooded […]

Story by Hailey Wist The mountains and foothills surrounding The Cliffs communities are home to one of the most culturally active regions in the Southeast. What has taken shape here over generations, through art schools, performance venues, museums, and working creative communities, adds up to something unique for a landscape of this scale and character. […]

Story by Hailey Wist Across all seven communities, it shapes the social calendar, informs the dinner table, and gives members a shared vocabulary for gathering. That culture has its own infrastructure—wine dinners, cellar programs, weekly happy hours. At the center of it is the Wine Consortium, a program that pools collective buying power to source […]

THE HERITAGE ISSUE   Heritage is shaped by the places we cherish, the traditions we share, and the stories we carry forward. The newest issue of Cliffs Living celebrates those connections across our seven private club communities, set amid the Blue Ridge Mountains and Lake Keowee. In The Heritage Issue, discover the golf holes that […]

Story by Hailey Wist The Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the greater Appalachian chain, began forming more than a billion years ago, the product of colliding continents and unimaginable force. At the time of their emergence, these mountains were among the highest in the world, peaks of incomprehensible scale. Over hundreds of millions of years, […]