SYLVA, N.C. -- Chaffin/Light Associates is pleased to announce that Balsam Mountain Preserve has been named one of America’s Top 100 Golf Communities by Travel & Leisure Golf. Balsam Mountain Preserve is a 4,400 acre community set high in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains near the towns of Sylva and Waynesville and only 40 minutes from Asheville.

For more information visit the Balsam Mountain Preserve website at www.balsammountain.com or call (866) 452-3456.

Balsam Mountain Preserve was designed as a community within a park with 3,000 of the 4,400 acres protected by conservation easements and only 354 homes. Chaffin and Light have created an authentic, organic, and rugged mountain community in a sought-after, natural environment. Amenities include an 18 hole Arnold Palmer Signature Course, a state of the art equestrian facility, The Ruby Valley Sports Camp, The Boarding House Lodge, a Nature Center with two onsite naturalists, 38 miles of fishing streams and 50 miles of hiking trails.

For more information visit the Balsam Mountain Preserve website at www.balsammountain.com or call (866) 452-3456.