Good news for all the equestrians! We just found the perfect place where no cars are allowed, only horses! Love Valley looks like just like any other small mountain towns in North Carolina but you won’t find another place like Love Valley anywhere else – it’s a Western-themed town where no cars are allowed, only horses – so if you go and visit it you have to park outside the town and walk-in.
If you look upon the internet, you will be surprised that most of the roads in Love Valley are simply called trails, instead of roads, or even streets. But there’s a great reason behind it: It’s because this small picturesque town in the Brushy Mountains of North Carolina simply doesn’t allow cars.
The town was founded beginning in 1954 by one man who merged two dreams when he put the tiny town together: He aspired to live in a Christian community and he also aspired to be a cowboy. This man was named Andy Barker and by the age of 29 he quit a profitable general contracting job in Charlotte just to move to the mountains, so he could fulfill the dream he had since he was a child, wanting to live in a western town since he was a boy. His tiny town of Love Valley wasn’t built with future tourists in mind, but the oddity of the town surely invites them all to visit it even nowadays.