AVL Vacation Retreat Guidebook

Mike
AVL Vacation Retreat Guidebook

Sightseeing

Experience America’s Largest Home®, as magnificent today as it was more than a century ago. Your self-guided house visit spans three floors and the basement of the luxurious family home of George and Edith Vanderbilt. Explore the stories of the Vanderbilt family, their guests, and employees through displays of vintage clothing, accessories, art, furniture, and more.
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Biltmore
1 Lodge St
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Experience America’s Largest Home®, as magnificent today as it was more than a century ago. Your self-guided house visit spans three floors and the basement of the luxurious family home of George and Edith Vanderbilt. Explore the stories of the Vanderbilt family, their guests, and employees through displays of vintage clothing, accessories, art, furniture, and more.
A Blue Ridge Parkway experience is unlike any other: a slow-paced and relaxing drive revealing stunning long-range vistas and close-up views of the rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes of the Appalachian Highlands. The Parkway meanders for 469 miles, protecting a diversity of plants and animals, and providing opportunities for enjoying all that makes this region of the country so special.
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Blue Ridge Parkway
3884 Blue Ridge Parkway
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A Blue Ridge Parkway experience is unlike any other: a slow-paced and relaxing drive revealing stunning long-range vistas and close-up views of the rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes of the Appalachian Highlands. The Parkway meanders for 469 miles, protecting a diversity of plants and animals, and providing opportunities for enjoying all that makes this region of the country so special.
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Distretto delle Arti Fluviali
3 River Arts Pl
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City/town information

Downtown Asheville is filled with indie boutiques, cutting-edge galleries, and specialty food stores, plus artisan shops in the elegant Grove Arcade. Farm-to-table and Southern restaurants dot the area, alongside breweries, chic cocktail bars, and storied music venues. Live music daily!
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Asheville
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Downtown Asheville is filled with indie boutiques, cutting-edge galleries, and specialty food stores, plus artisan shops in the elegant Grove Arcade. Farm-to-table and Southern restaurants dot the area, alongside breweries, chic cocktail bars, and storied music venues. Live music daily!

Food scene

The brewery’s tasting room rotates up to twelve taps. The nature centric location focuses on outdoor activities and social libation offerings along with bites from their food partner Taqueria Muñoz.
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Zillicoah Beer Co.
870 Riverside Dr
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The brewery’s tasting room rotates up to twelve taps. The nature centric location focuses on outdoor activities and social libation offerings along with bites from their food partner Taqueria Muñoz.
Walking distance is Riverside Rhapsody is a small craft brewery that provides Woodfin and the surrounding communities with a casual and comfortable community hub and local “watering hole”
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Riverside Rhapsody Beer Company
995 Riverside Dr
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Walking distance is Riverside Rhapsody is a small craft brewery that provides Woodfin and the surrounding communities with a casual and comfortable community hub and local “watering hole”
The Barrelhouse is North Asheville’s neighborhood juke joint. Open from 4pm-2am every day of the year. The focus here is food and music. This late night scratch kitchen specializes in handcrafted pierogies, wings and burgers. Gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options are available. The bar offers 12 drafts, an assortment of spirits, bottled beer, wine and non-alcoholic options.
the barrelhouse
1459 Merrimon Ave
The Barrelhouse is North Asheville’s neighborhood juke joint. Open from 4pm-2am every day of the year. The focus here is food and music. This late night scratch kitchen specializes in handcrafted pierogies, wings and burgers. Gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options are available. The bar offers 12 drafts, an assortment of spirits, bottled beer, wine and non-alcoholic options.

Outdoor Recreation

Get in touch with your inner tube with Zen Tubing. Enjoy a family-friendly float on the French Broad River in Asheville, NC.
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Zen Tubing
608 Riverside Dr
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Get in touch with your inner tube with Zen Tubing. Enjoy a family-friendly float on the French Broad River in Asheville, NC.
A great place for quiet contemplation, fishing, kayaking, or family cookouts; Woodfin River Park is a great place to spend the day or just a lunch break.
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Woodfin Riverside Park
1598 Riverside Dr
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A great place for quiet contemplation, fishing, kayaking, or family cookouts; Woodfin River Park is a great place to spend the day or just a lunch break.
Looking for a beautiful spot for a leisurely stroll to enjoy nature in the middle of the city? Go to the Botanical Gardens of Asheville. The garden collections focus on plants native to our Southern Appalachian Mountains and include a large variety of trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers, herbs, grasses, sedges, aquatic plants, ferns, mosses and lichens - approximately 600 species in all.
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Giardini botanici ad Asheville
151 W T. Weaver Boulevard
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Looking for a beautiful spot for a leisurely stroll to enjoy nature in the middle of the city? Go to the Botanical Gardens of Asheville. The garden collections focus on plants native to our Southern Appalachian Mountains and include a large variety of trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers, herbs, grasses, sedges, aquatic plants, ferns, mosses and lichens - approximately 600 species in all.