North Carolina, where 'Hunger Games' was filmed, getting ready for fan tourism

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By Martha Waggoner, The Associated Press | Associated Press – Wed, Mar 21, 2012

RALEIGH, N.C. - Fans of "The Hunger Games" are already turning up in North Carolina, seeking out places where the movie was shot, from old-growth forests to an abandoned mill town.
And the tourism industry is prepared to cash in on them, with everything from hotel packages and zip lines tours, to re-enactments of scenes from the film and lessons in survival skills.

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But fans are already coming. "I'm getting too many visitors," said the property owner, Wade Shepherd, 83, who hasn't read "The Hunger Games."
"Day and night, they're driving through, taking pictures, getting out and walking. I'm just bombarded with people."

Wife and I planned on visiting Transylvania County and the Mt. Pisgah area on our road trip in May. Now I'm thinking I might go to some of the waterfall areas in southern Virginia/northern North Carolina instead, rather than get caught up in the herd of fellow tourists.