This is beautiful terrain, the corner of North Carolina where George Vanderbilt chose to build America’s ultimate trophy house, and the fleet of Land Rover Driving Experience vehicles are the only ones allowed out on the trails. I head out onto the trails with Greg Nikolas, the school’s head instructor. There are many genres of off-roading—rock crawling, mud-bogging, dune-running—but the Land Rover school is geared to the expedition style.
