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Most tourists come to Asheville for the Biltmore Estate, a truly remarkable chateau, but nothing can compare to the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This picture from the web shows why they're called blue . . .
Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park
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3.5 Stars - 176 Opinions
43 Town Square Blvd., Asheville, North Carolina, 28803, United States
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Please help with things to do in Asheville, NC
Hi!
My husband and I will be visiting Asheville the third week of October in anticipation of the birth of our first grandchild!! :) We've never been to Asheville before (daughter recently moved there) and since we're staying a week, we want to do a few things while there. We know about Biltmore of course :) but when we try to look up things to do there, it turns out most of the things listed are 50 miles or more away! Are there things to do close to Asheville? There's a train ride that looked interesting but that was a good ways away also :(
Also good restaurants and bead stores (I'm a beader :) )
Thanks for any help you may have to offer!
Meenie
Re: Please help with things to do in Asheville, NC
I'm not sure of the distance but there is Carl Sandburg's home and the town of Cherokee in the Blue Ridge Mountains. You will need an entire day at the Biltmore.
Re: Please help with things to do in Asheville, NC
yes there seems to be alot of things to do but, they wouldn't be up my alley. i would think there would be more furniture themed tours.
I looked here
http://www.exploreasheville.com/what-to-do/historic-attractions--museums/index.aspx
Sandberg's museum is in Flat Rock, It looks to be about 50 miles too.
Best of luck and Congrats to your new role as Grandparents
Re: Please help with things to do in Asheville, NC
Have you tried this site?
http://www.exploreasheville.com/what-to-do/index.aspx
Re: Please help with things to do in Asheville, NC
October is a good time to drive the Blue Ridge Parkway up to Mt. Pisgah.
Re: Please help with things to do in Asheville, NC
A little late, but the leaves are in full fall foliage bloom! Drive to Tryon, NC taking the back roads (by way of Hendersonville & Flat Rock) then head up to Lake Lure... and then back track to Asheville by way of Chimney Rock (Lake Lure) & Bat Cave. This is a drive you can do in 5 - 6 hours if you stop along the way in Hendersonville, Flat Rock, Tryon, Lake Lure, Chimney Rock, etc.
Maybe some other day you drive from Asheville to Boone via the Blue Ridge Parkway.
You can even go to Johnson City, Tennessee (less than one hour from Asheville) and drive around the Cherokee Forest.
You will be in a beautiful area to explore mountains and scenery and you are here during the fall! ENJOY!
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graffiti
In Asheville most of it is tasteful and entertaining, usually political.........I have always been interested in this medium...maybe one day I will anonymously throw something up on a wall somewhere....
Woodworking
I have seem woodworker at work in the Historic Horse Barn in the Biltmore Farm Village. The woodworker used original tools from the beginning of 20th century. In western North Carolina woodworker's skills were used, among others. in house building and wagon building.
The owners of the Biltmore Estate, the Vanderbilts, established Biltmore Estate Industries in nearby Biltmore Village to teach woodworking, veawing, and other traditional skills. Today, in keeping with George and Edith Vanderbilt's vision of supporting regional crafts, artisans demonstrate their works in the Historic Horse Barn. This space, originally used as a storage bay for diary delivery wagons and farm equipment, was enclosed in 1940s to house a carpentry shop.
Free stuff!
Asheville has so many free events in downtown, especially in the summer. There's silent movies (with live music!) at Pritchard park, live music ("Shindig on the Green") in City County Plaza and tons of dowtown restaurants, gallery walks, dancing (at least cheap if not free)....There's a wonderful publication, called Mountian Express, that will tell you about all of these things which comes out every Wednesday and can be gotten (for free) throughout dowtown from shops, cafes, and those on-the-street-newspaper-box-things. It also has wonderful horoscopes. :)
The Vanderbilt family and Titanic
I found this store very interesting. It offers books and various items related to the Vanderbilt family (founders and owners of the Biltmore Estate) and their era at the end of the 19th century: paintings, table lamps, clocks and other home decor of that time. I surely thought about some books on the Vanderbilt family but I didn't buy any. Instead I started to read some of them in this store :-).
I got to know one very interesting fact from life of George Washington Vanderbilt II who undertook to have Biltmore House constructed near Asheville in 1888. In 1912 George W. Vanderbilt II and his wife booked passage on the Titanic but canceled due to a premonition of Mrs. Vanderbilt's mother. It was too late for them to get their servant and baggage off the ship; both were lost when the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. Well, he was not only rich but also very lucky :-). Although soon later he lost most of his assets due to bad investments. He died unexpectedly in Washington, D.C. after an operation for appendicitis in 1914.
Over $20 per each book I liked.
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