Seven Devils is a town in Avery and Watauga counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 192 at the 2010 census. The town, which is located in the Appalachian Mountains, is best known as the site of a popular wintertime tubing resort known as Hawksnest, which claims it has the largest tubing facility upon the East Coast, and some of the town’s year round residents earn their active at the resort. Many others are retirees. Developed in the 1970s as a vacation home community, Seven Devils is home mostly to seasonal residents.

In the mid-1960s, seven men from the Winston-Salem Place established the unincorporated community of Seven Devils past the vision of creating a recreational resort. The seven founders included four brothers, Herbert Reynolds, Frank Reynolds, Galloway Reynolds and Dan Reynolds, and their partners George Kempton, Ray Smith and Gardner Gidley. They wanted a unique proclaim to attract visitors and approved upon Seven Devils based upon a immersion of factors. There were seven founders and seven sure peaks from the ridge pedigree of the Blue Ridge Parkway that viewed the area, and locals often said that “the wind blows considering the devil happening there in the winter time.”

In its further on days, Seven Devils featured a campground, swimming lake, horseback riding trails and stables, rental cottages and a general store. The Seven Devils Golf & Ski Resort opened in December 1968, attracting more visitors and residents. The town of Seven Devils was incorporated on June 30, 1979.

In the to the fore 1980s, Jon Reynolds assumed ownership of the ski Place and changed its broadcast to Ski Hawksnest. The resort soon became a favorite along with locals and literary students, offering low ticket prices, a bar considering live music, and a weekend night skiing session called “Nighthawk” that ran from 10pm to 4am. In 1993, Leonard Cottom, who owned the adjacent to Hanging Rock Golf and Country Club, purchased the ski area, changing the pronounce to Hawksnest Golf & Ski Resort. In 2008, under the ownership of Lenny Cottom, Hawksnest closed for skiing to focus upon snow tubing and ziplining.