[3] Lansing is a popular destination among retirees and tourists from Florida, as well as those from the lower elevations of the Carolinas and Georgia.

Lansing has one stop sign (a single three-way intersection at NC Highway 194 and Big Horse Creek Road).

In the early 20th century, Lansing was a very busy place, primarily because of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, whose daily mixed train, nicknamed the "Virginia Creeper", stopped here.

Todd, West Jefferson, Lansing, White Oak, and other towns in North Carolina were also regular stopping places for the train.

Lansing High School was built in 1941 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) using very beautiful local granite stone.