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Western
North Carolina offers a wide selection of art galleries and
theatres, historic houses, beautiful gardens, family activities
and outdoor activities year-round.
Three
general web sites:
The
Asheville Citizen-Times - www.citizen-times.com
The local newspaper (includes current weather at top right side of
screen)
Asheville
Tourism Information Center - www.instantemail.net/asheville
The Blue Ridge Mountains
- www.ncblueridge.com
Ashville is in Buncombe County. Includes an Events calendar
THE
ARTS
Asheville
is second only to Miami Beach for quantity of Art Deco architecture
in the south-eastern USA and is a centre for the visual and
performing arts.
Asheville
Art Museum - www.ashevilleart.org
Features 20th and 21st century American Art -
Asheville Bravo
Concerts - www.ashevillebravoconcerts.org
Asheville Community
Theatre - www.ashevilletheatre.org
Asheville Lyric Opera -
www.ashevillelyric.org
Asheville
Urban Trail - www.ashevillearts.com
Walking tour of 30 sculptures depicting history of
downtown Asheville
Black
Mountain College Museum and Arts Center - www.blackmountaincollege.org
History and legacy of acclaimed experimental educational
community
Black Mountain Center
for the Arts - www.blackmountainarts.org
Brevard Music Centre
& Festival - www.brevardmusic.org
Dance, Theatre, Art
& the 'BeBe' Theatre - www.acdt.org
Diana Wortham Theatre -
www.dwtheatre.com
Flat Rock Playhouse -
www.flatrockplayhouse.org
Folk Art Center -
www.southernhighlandguild.org
Grove
Arcade ARTS &
Heritage Gallery - www.grovearcade.com
Regional artisans, music and stories
Southern Appalachian
Repertory Theatre - www.sartheatre.com
Unto These
Hills - www.untothesehills.com
Live outdoor dramatization of the history of the Eastern Band of Cherokee
YMI Cultural Center -
www.ymicc.org
Art galleries, classes and performances in African-American
cultural art and history
HISTORIC
SITES
Historic Montford Tours
- www.montfordarts.com
Walking or Auto-rickshaw tour of historic Montford, one of the largest historic districts in the state.
Asheville
Historic Trolley Tours - www.ashevilletrolleytours.com
A 75-minute tour of Asheville on vintage
trolley
Carl
Sandburg Home National Historic Site - www.nps.gov/carl
Historic home of American poet Carl
Sandburg with farm and trails
Smith-McDowell House
Museum - www.wnchistory.org
Asheville's oldest house (1840)
Swannanoe Valley Museum
www.swannanoavalleymuseum.org
Thomas Wolfe Memorial
State Historic Site - www.wolfememorial.com
Tours of house and displays on novelist Thomas Wolfe
Zebulon B. Vance
Birthplace State Historic Site - www.vancebirthplace.nchistoricsites.org
Reconstructed mountain farmstead
OTHER
MUSEUMS
Colburn
Earth Science Museum - www.colburnmuseum.org
Estes-Winn Auto Museum
- www.grovewood.com/automuseum.htm
The Health Adventure -
www.thehealthadventure.org
Family health and science museum
Southern Appalachian
Radio Museum - www.saradiomuseum.org
Radios from WWI to 1960s.
GARDENS
Biltmore
Estate - www.biltmore.com
America's largest home with extensive gardens and winery. Exhibits and demonstrations
in Historic Horse Barn. Raft through estate on French Broad River.
The Estate holds a Festival of Flowers in Spring and a Candlelit
Christmas in winter.
Botanical
Gardens at
Asheville - www.ashevillebotanicalgardens.org
North Carolina
Arboretum - www.ncarboretum.org
Bonsai
and formal gardens
OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES
There
are outdoor activities in Western North Carolina all year round.
In Spring there is whitewater rafting, in summer pick wild
blueberries, in Autumn admire the fall colors and in winter there
is skiing, snowboarding and tubing. You can hike
of bike the Blue Ridge Parkway anytime (except, possibly, winter!)
Appalachian National
Scenic Trail - www.appalachiantrail.org
Chimney Rock Park - www.chimneyrockpark.com
Cradle of Forestry -
Tel. 828-877-3130
Fly Fishing -
www.curtiswrightoutfitters.com
French Broad Rafting
Expeditions - www.frenchbroadrafting.com
Great Smoky Mountains
Railroad - www.gsmr.com
Huck Finn River
Adventure - www.huckfinnrafting.com/asheville
Nantahala Outdoor
Center - www.noc.com
Southern Waterways - www.paddlewithus.com
Western
North Carolina Nature Centre - www.wildwnc.org
Wildwater Ltd. Rafting
- www.wildwaterrafting.com
SKIING
Cataloochee Ski Area - www.cataloochee.com
Wolf Laurel Slopes - www.skiwolflaurel.com
GOLF
Asheville
Municipal Golf Course - www.ashevilleparks.org
The
Crowne Plaza Resort Golf Course - www.ashevillecp.com
Etowah
Valley Country Club - www.etowahvalley.com
The
Golf Course at The Grove Park Inn - www.groveparkinn.com
Mount
Mitchell Golf Club - www.mountmitchellgolfresort.com
Reems Creek
Golf Club - www.reemscreekgolf.com
DAY
TRIPS
Cherokee
Indian Reservation - www.cherokee-nc.com
Grandfather
Mountain - www.grandfather.com
The highest peak in the Blue Ridge
Great
Smoky Mountains National Park - www.nps.gov/grsm
Historic
Hendersonville & Village of Flat Rock - www.historichendersonville.org
Linville
Caverns Inc. - www.linvillecaverns.com
Madison
County - www.madisoncounty-nc.com
Oconaluftee
Indian Village - www.oconalufteevillage.com
Historic
Orchard
at Altapass - www.altapassorchard.com
Tweetsie
Railroad - www.tweetsie.com
Wheels
Through Time Museum - www.wheelsthroughtime.com
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