Try Boone's NEW Green Passport

This passport highlights local, sustainable businesses in Boone! Visit them, scan a QR code at each one, and collect stamps in your digital passport, supporting Boone's small businesses to locals, students, and visitors alike.

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The Appalachian Walker College of Business

Student Sustainable Business Association

SSBA is a student club at Appalachian State University focused on bringing sustainable practices into local businesses, careers, and communities. Sustainably, Boone is our flagship project, a way to put that mission directly into the community's hands.

Boone Tourism Development Association

The Town of Boone's Tourism Development Association supports and promotes Boone as a destination, helping connect the High Country's businesses, events, and natural beauty with the people who come to experience them.

Town of Boone Sustainability

The Town of Boone Sustainability Committee advises the town on sustainability policy and programs, working to protect Boone's mountains, water, and community resources for the long term.

What the Passport is

A free digital passport for Boone. Visit sustainable businesses, nonprofits, trails, and local landmarks, scan a QR code at each stop, and collect stamps, with a real reward waiting once you've collected enough of them.

Own a business in Boone?

If your business is working toward sustainability, we'd love to feature you in the passport and connect you with the community that cares about it most.

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Students, visitors, or anyone else with questions about the passport, send us a message and we'll get back to you.

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What the stars mean

Each business is rated using a star system to reflect its commitment to sustainability:

★☆☆

Already has at least one sustainable practice in place.

★★☆

Pledging to implement a new sustainability measure.

★★★

Now working towards a second sustainability goal.

What you can collect

Sustainable Businesses

Explore Boone's finest locally owned businesses committed to sustainability!

Sustainable Eats

Choose a restaurant that wants to work for the planet and you.

Stay Sustainably

Stay in Boone in places you can trust prioritize sustainability!

Getting Outside!

No Car? No Problem! Explore Boone's natural beauty starting right downtown!

The Wonderful Non-Profits of Boone

Our nonprofits working to make the High Country a better place for all!

Sustainable Businesses

Mast General Store

630 W King St., Boone, NC 28607

★★☆

Boone Fillery

630 W King St., Boone, NC 28607

★★☆

Regear Outdoors

967 Rivers St, Boone, NC 28607

★★☆

Anna Banana's Fine Consignment

641 W King St. #2, Boone, NC 28607

★★☆

The Happy Persimmon

140 Depot St. #2, Boone, NC 28607 (enter via The Speckled Trout Outfitters)

★★☆

King Street Flowers & Gifts

471 W King St, Boone, NC 28607

★☆☆

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Sustainable Eats

Little Wing Ice Cream

216 Howard St., Boone, NC 28607

★★☆

Rooted on King

659 W King St., Boone, NC 28607

★★☆

Wildwood Community Market

182 Howard St., Boone, NC 28607

★★☆

Local Lion

791 Blowing Rock Rd, Boone, NC 28607

★☆☆

Venture Chocolate + Wine Co.

605 W King St, Boone, NC 28607

★☆☆

Stay Sustainably

Lovill House Inn

404 Old Bristol Rd, Boone, NC 28607

★★☆

Getting Outside!

Northern Peaks State Trail (Southern Terminus)

River Street House Park, Boone, NC

Middle Fork Greenway

Middle Fork Greenway, Boone, NC

Howard's Knob

Howard's Knob, Boone, NC

Durham Park at Appalachian State University

Durham Park, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

The Appalachian State Nature Preserve

Appalachian State University Nature Preserve, Boone, NC

Daniel Boone Native Gardens

Daniel Boone Native Gardens, Boone, NC

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The Wonderful Non-Profits of Boone

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture

969 W King St, Boone, NC 28607

★★★

F.A.R.M. Cafe

617 W King St, Boone, NC 28607

★★★

Hunger & Health Coalition

141 Health Center Drive Suite C, Boone, NC 28607

★★★