Best of Boone is the annual readers choice issue produced by the staff of The Appalachian that highlights all the best parts of our community for the 2024-25 academic year! This is our tenth year of producing this special edition and we have opened voting earlier! For most categories, we have provided choices as well as a write-in option. The choices listed received the top six (or more, depending on a tie) votes in ballots from previous years. Some questions may have less than six choices listed if six options did not get votes the previous year or if some of the previous options are no longer in Boone at the time of voting. Some questions are write-in only because they are new questions as of this year or because there are too many choices to list.

The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete!

In order for your votes to be considered valid, you must select an answer for at least 10 questions.

Let us know you voted by tagging @TheAppalachian on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and using the hashtag #BestofBoone25.