Valle Crucis in an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. The publish of the town is Latin for “Vale of the Cross,” a insinuation to a valley in the area where three streams converge to form a shape thesame to an archbishop’s cross. The community is located along NC 194, between the towns of Banner Elk and Boone.

Before the 1840s, there has been scattered settlements in the area but not at all times until the Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission was established. Founded by Levi Silliman Ives, an Episcopal missionary, “Easter Chapel” served as the first Episcopal church in the area. Its successor, the Holy Cross Episcopal Church, was built in 1926 and modeled upon a now-defunct medieval monastery in Wales and is noteworthy for its architecture.

Valle Crucis is located at the banks of Dutch Creek and Watauga River, at an height above sea level of 2,677 feet (816 m) above sea level. To its north and east is Tester Mountain and to its south and west is Valle Mountain. The community is plus within the Pisgah National Forest boundary, which limits some further in the area.

Weather ranges from warm summer days and cool summer evenings to cold or even bitterly Cool winter nights. Rainfall is moderate, averaging 43 inches (1,100 mm) per year. Severe storms are rare. Snowfall occurs in the winter with some increase to be received several become old between December and April. Snowfall averages 42 inches (1,100 mm) per year. The Place is plus known for monster one of the lowest and most speedily flooded in the region. The heart of Valle Crucis, including the bulk of the stores, the elementary school, and community park is a particularly low lying and flat in comparison to the mountainous terrain of the surrounding areas. Flooding is not an extremely scarce event and can inhibit many functions of the town, such as the without difficulty known occasional flooding of the bridge upon DeWitt Barnett Road, inhibiting permission from that side of the town.