Western North Carolina independent inns

3B's Inn sits right on Gerton Highway in the tiny Hickory Nut Gorge community of Gerton, North Carolina — the kind of place you find because you're already driving the mountain road, not because a billboard sent you. Part inn, part bed & breakfast, part old-fashioned roadside lodging, it has earned a 4.9 rating across 116 reviews, which in a town this small says plenty about the welcome. Details are few and the scale is modest, which is rather the point.