From Hope Philbrick with Getaways for Grownups:
We spent less than 24 hours in Belmont, North Carolina—eight of them asleep. And yet it was enough to fall head over heels for the place.
Though a longer visit is in order, if your road trip from Point A to Point B passes through Belmont—which is located in Gaston County, about 15 miles west of uptown Charlotte—heed our advice to make most of an overnight stop.