Asheville North Carolina Premier Monthyl April 2010 - There's something special about Asheville, and the world is just beginning to discover it. This thriving mountain city features a funky and eclectic downtown, 20-plus art galleries downtown alone, a burgeoning culinary scene, a thriving live music scene and, of course, the awe-inspriin g scenery... click here for more |
Asheville is top on Relocate-America.com's annual top 10 list RomanticAsheville.com - Asheville is top on Relocate-America.com's annual top 10 list, compiled each year since 1998. The site attracts visitors in the process of relocating, and is aimed at helping people research cities before making a move. The Web site is a service of HomeRoute, a Howell, Mich.-based company that... click here for more |
Asheville is Number Two for Small Cities with Art RomanticAsheville.com - AmericanStyle Magazine once again named Asheville as the number two small city in the United States for art for 2009! Santa Fe continues to be ranked number one. Asheville is noted for its Art Deco cityscape, the Folk Art Center, Biltmore Estate and the Grove Arcade. Additionally, American... click here for more |
Asheville History ExporeAsheville.com - Asheville at the Crossroad
Asheville was a primitive outpost in 1797. Frontiersmen such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett traveled through in the early days. Asheville was little more than a crossroads of Indian trails on a plateau surrounded by mountains and rivers on all sides. The railroad... click here for more |
Outside Magazine - Blue Ridge Mountains are an Ideal Adventure Travel Destination Outside Magazine - Outdoor recreation and outdoor adventures are seemingly endless in the Western North Carolina mountains, the outdoor playground of the Southeast. Acclaimed by numerous magazines as a top outdoor adventure destination, visitors enjoy whitewater rafting, mountain biking, hiking and experiencing the highest peaks in the entire Eastern U.S.
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Expressways May Not Lead to Hot Springs, N.C. But Trails Do By Linda Lange-HOT SPRINGS, N.C. - The mountains of Western North Carolina give birth to the French Broad River. It sweeps past Hot Springs, an old railroad town, and then courses through a landscape of tobacco and cattle farms. The river bottom once held the Buncombe Turnpike, a major route... click here for more |
Hatching the Future: Creative Arts Festival Inspires East Coast Mountain Town By Christine Sykes Lowe--
Asheville, NC- Asheville is in preparations for an annual festival that showcases some of the world's best creative artists in Film, Music, Architecture, Technology, Design, Journalism, Photography and Fashion. Four days each year, beginning in Spring 2009, the Asheville HATCHfest will showcase film screenings, concerts, and exhibits... click here for more |
Bold Colors on th Blue Ridge: Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina--GORP's Top 10 Autumn Escapes: Fall's Best Forests GORP's Top 10 Autumn Escapes: Fall's Best Forests--By Ian Wilker The northern forests of New England and the Midwest may get most of the fall-foliage hype, but down south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the Blue Ridge puts on a vibrant show of its own. Come October, few places are more... click here for more |
USA Today/High-Country Hip USA Today October 2, 2003-By Gene Sloan-Asheville, N.C. — It's almost the midnight hour on a Saturday night, and the 11-month-old Orange Peel club is rocking. So, too, is Tressa's, just down the street, where the crowd sways to rhythm & blues. And around the corner at Malaprop's Bookstore, the... click here for more |
Tour Spotlights Energy Savings By Dale Neal-Asheville Citizen Times-
In his three decades in the building industry, Robin Woodward has seen green go mainstream.
"Thirty years ago, we didn't call it green building, but we've been working with passive solar systems all along," said Woodward, who runs Blue Ridge Energy Systems.
Woodward is using active photovoltaic systems that... click here for more |
Tiger Woods on the Fore! Front in Western North Carolina VisitNC.com--Recent Tour Championship winner Tiger Woods announced in August 2007 that he will design his first U.S. golf course at the Cliffs at High Carolina community near Asheville. "My goal is to design a handful of very unique courses around the world, and the Cliffs is a perfect fit for... click here for more |
Outside Magazine-The 30 Best Towns in America Asheville, NC- You can learn a lot about a town from the stickers on locals' cars. One that's always nice to see: Keep Asheville Weird. An island of liberal alternative culture, the town attracts artists, musicians, and of course, plenty of outdoor funhogs. Cradled in a lush green bowl anchored... click here for more |
Asheville, NC Tops America's Best Places to Live- By Amy Hoak, MarketWatch
Chicago (MarketWatch) -- The population of Asheville, N.C., is only about 70,000, but this midsize city ranked No. 1 on a list of the most popular places to live in 2007. Asheville made its second appearance on Relocate-America.com's annual top 10 list, compiled each year since 1998.... click here for more |
Keys to the City of Asheville North Carolina U.S. Airways 9-09 - Keys to the City of Asheville North Carolina – The expanse of green – a million acres of forest – that comes into view as you approach Asheville Regional Airport belies the fact that you’re arriving in a major capital. For Asheville is unequivocally the capital... click here for more |
