There is a mountain town in North Carolina where the traffic report and the fall foliage report describe the same event. It has a university, a ski season, a summer escape season, and a leaf season, and they overlap almost perfectly. Locals who once zipped through town in minutes now plan their errands around tourist schedules. The challenge is that the university and the town have grown faster than the infrastructure supporting both of them. What Locals Hope Visitors Will Finally UnderstandMost people who love Boone do not want visitors to stop coming.