High Country

High country may refer to:

  • High country (New Zealand)
  • "High Country", a nickname for parts of western North Carolina in the United States
  • "High Country", a nickname for the Colorado Plateau, including the towns of Flagstaff, Sedona, Page, and Payson in northern Arizona
  • "High country", a region northeast of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or country:

    “Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”
    —William Golding (b. 1911)

    “No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.”
    —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)