Cashiers North Carolina is a small town located in Jackson County. The town sits at the crossroads between Highway 64 and North Carolina Highway 107. It was named after settlers known as the Zachary Family’s involvement in accounting for gold mining. Originally, the town was named Cashiers Valley, but was renamed in 1881.

Cashiers sits east of the Blue Ridge mountains and gives Cashiers its distinctive mountain charm that makes the area a popular region for a vacation. Cashiers is home to a great diversity of waterfalls, forests, and rivers that the U.S. Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy have worked to protect. Cashiers is in a very interesting biome of the U.S. Cashiers sits within what is classified as the Appalachian temperate rainforest leading to a wealth of natural diversity. That means that it is one of the places in the United States that gets the most rain.

As of 2020 Cashiers was home to 657 people. The small town has an influx of people because of the vacation homes bring people in who have a love of hiking, mountain biking, golf, and fly fishing. There’s a number of nice places to stay in Cashiers, many of which offer the ability to visit another mountain town in the area Highlands. These places commonly include The Wells Hotel, Hotel Cashiers, The Buckeye Cabin, and The Hemlock Cabin.