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Touring Biltmore South
The district Biltmore South of in Buncombe County (North Carolina) is a subburb located in United States about 380 mi south-west of Washington DC, the country's capital place.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: -1°C / 31 °F
Morning Temperature | -3°C / 26 °F |
Evening Temperature | -4°C / 24 °F |
Night Temperature | -5°C / 22 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 45% |
Air Pressure | 1033 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 7 km/h (4 mph) from South-East |
Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 35% of sky |
General Conditions | Scattered clouds |
Wednesday, 4th of December 2024
7°C (45 °F)
1°C (34 °F)
Few clouds, light breeze.
Thursday, 5th of December 2024
1°C (34 °F)
-6°C (21 °F)
Broken clouds, fresh breeze.
Friday, 6th of December 2024
5°C (41 °F)
-3°C (26 °F)
Few clouds, light breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Grand Bohemian Hotel Asheville Autograph Collection
DoubleTree by Hilton Asheville - Biltmore
Residence Inn Asheville Biltmore
The Residences at Biltmore
Hampton Inn Asheville-Tunnel Road
North Lodge on Oakland
Oakland Cottage Bed & Breakfast
Hampton Inn - Suites-Asheville Biltmore Village NC
BROOKSTONE LODGE
Brookstone Lodge
Videos from this area
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CineChopper - Biltmore Estate - Asheville, North Carolina - From Above
We had the opportunity to film aerials on the Biltmore 8000 acre estate. Truly an amazing place, you need to check it out! http://www.biltmore.com Enquires: Chris@cinechopper.com Like me...
Biltmore Village Asheville North Carolina Oct 22, 2009
Asheville's Biltmore Village is a very popular shopping destination just about 2 miles South of Downtown Asheville. Loads of people come to this historic neighborhood to enjoy the beauty of...
Asheville Real Estate - 335 Vanderbilt Rd Biltmore Forest, NC
Join us for a tour of this beautifully renovated home in Biltmore Forest, NC.
Biltmore Estate - August 31-September 1, 2014.
When George Washington Vanderbilt III welcomed family and friends to Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve in 1895, his holiday marked the formal opening of the most ambitious home ever conceived...
Biltmore Estates Asheville, North Carolina
Biltmore Estates Mansion and surrounding grounds, plus Biltmore Inn's Hotel. I had taken the Biltmore's roof top tour and toured the Tulip & Azalea Gardens. Pictures were taken in late April...
Biltmore Estate
This is a recent visit I had with my wife to the Biltmore Estate. We toured the House, garden, winery and the farm.
Wedding at the Biltmore Estate
Lovely wedding at the Biltmore Inn Vista on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.
Proposal at the Biltmore Estate
On October 7, 2012, under the assumption that we were going to be taking pictures I dropped on one knee and proposed to Aliona in front of the great Biltmore estate in Ashville, North Carolina....
A Day at Biltmore - Part One
A compilation of photos, video, and time lapse I've taken at the Biltmore Estate......
Asheville NC Vacation Rental. Mountainview Manor
Asheville North Carolina Luxury Vacation rental. 4500 sq. ft. Great views (828) 333-0394.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Biltmore Forest, North Carolina
Biltmore Forest is an affluent town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,559 in 2008. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Biltmore Village
Biltmore Village, formerly Best, is a small village that is now entirely in the city limits of Asheville, North Carolina. It is adjacent to the main entrance of the Biltmore Estate, built by George W. Vanderbilt, one of the heirs to the Vanderbilt family fortune. Once known as the town of Best, George Vanderbilt created this village as a "company town" for the estate workers. The community was planned and designed to reflect the qualities of an English country village.
Swannanoa River
The Swannanoa River flows through the Swannanoa Valley of western North Carolina, and is a major tributary to the French Broad River. It begins at its headwaters in Black Mountain, NC, however, it also has a major tributary near its headwaters: Flat Creek, which begins on the slopes of Mount Mitchell. The Swannanoa River ends when it meets the French Broad at Biltmore Estate in Asheville.
Jughandle
A jughandle is a type of ramp or slip road that changes the way traffic turns left at an at-grade intersection. Instead of a standard left turn being made from the left lane, left-turning traffic uses a ramp on the right side of the road. In a standard forward jughandle or near-side jughandle, the ramp leaves before the intersection, and left-turning traffic turns left off it rather than the through road. Right turns are also made using the jughandle.
Asheville Mall
Asheville Mall is a regional mall in Asheville, North Carolina. Asheville Mall is located off Interstate 240 in eastern Asheville. It is predominantly a one-story mall. Its anchors are Belk, J. C. Penney, Sears, and two Dillard's locations, Dillard's South and Dillard's North.
McCormick Field
McCormick Field is a baseball stadium in Asheville, North Carolina. It is the home field of the Asheville Tourists minor league baseball team. As befits the hilly city of Asheville, the ballpark sits on a section of level ground partway up one of the city's hills, providing a picturesque atmosphere. The park features an amusing scoreboard which reads "Visitors" in the guest slot and "Tourists" in the home slot.
U.S. Cellular Center (Asheville, North Carolina)
There is also a U.S. Cellular Center arena in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 50x40pxThis article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. U.S. Cellular Center (known as Asheville Civic Center until November 2011) is a 7,654-seat multi-purpose arena, in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.
Carolina Day School
Carolina Day School is an independent, co-ed, college preparatory school serving grades pre-k through 12. The school is located in the historic Biltmore Forest neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina. It consists of a lower, middle, and upper school. While classes in both the lower and upper schools have mixed genders, the middle school serves as a member of the Gurian Institute, which practices gender-specific learning. In 2006 the school was designated a Gurian Model School.
Asheville High School
Asheville High School (known as Lee H. Edwards High School 1935-1969) in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, is one of two secondary schools in the Asheville City Schools system. It is located at 419 McDowell Street, in a building designed by Douglas Ellington. Construction of the original building was begun in 1927 and completed in 1929. A modern addition was built in 1970, and in 2006 a new cafeteria was finished.
Asheville–Buncombe Technical Community College
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College is a public two-year community college established in 1959 in Asheville, North Carolina. The college is one of the oldest in the North Carolina Community College System and serves primarily Buncombe and Madison counties. As of the 2004-2005 school year, the curriculum enrollment was 9,023, with an extension enrollment of 17,308 students. These figures make the school one of the largest in the North Carolina system.
WQNQ
WQNQ is a United States FM radio station operating on 104.3 MHz serving the Asheville, North Carolina area. The station currently has a CHR (Top 40) music format and is owned by Clear Channel. The station is commonly called "Star 104.3. " WQNQ is licensed in Fletcher, North Carolina outside of Asheville. The station broadcasts at an effective radiated power of 470 watts from a transmitter located 349 meters (1,145 feet) above the average surrounding terrain.
Basilica of St. Lawrence, Asheville
The Basilica of St. Lawrence is a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. The basilica was designed and built in 1905 by Spanish architect Rafael Guastavino along with his fellow architect R. S. Smith and the surrounding Catholic community of Asheville, North Carolina. The Basilica is on the National Register of Historic Places and was elevated in status to a Minor Basilica in 1993 by Pope John Paul II.
Memorial Stadium, Asheville
Memorial Stadium is a multi-use stadium located in Asheville, North Carolina. In the early 2000s the stadium fell onto hard times, but is now in the midst of a project to revamp it called "master plan". Built in 1925 the 5,000-capacity stadium currently hosts several local teams, the Asheville Grizzlies of the North American Football League and athletics events for Buncombe County. The stadium hosted the now defunct Asheville Splash of the United Soccer Leagues W-League.
WPVM-LP
WPVM-LP is a non-commercial LPFM radio station located in Asheville, North Carolina licensed to the Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN), a nonprofit Internet service provider founded in 1995 for a 14-county area of western North Carolina. MAIN operates the station as MAIN-FM 103.5. The station is an integral part of MAIN's alternative media vision to enable citizens to spend their Internet dollars to support non-corporate news, music, and public affairs programming.
WRES-LP
WRES-LP is a non-commercial low-power FM (LPFM) radio station located in Asheville, North Carolina, that features a mixture of Urban Contemporary, Jazz, Gospel and news and information targeted to the area's African-American population. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 0.094 kW.
Orange Peel (venue)
The Orange Peel is a music venue located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. It has a capacity of 1,050 people and has hosted many well known acts, including Bob Dylan, Smashing Pumpkins, Deadmau5, the Beastie Boys, The Black Keys, Lauryn Hill, Ice Cube, Megadeth, Medeski, Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, The Glitch Mob, Martin, and Wood, Queens of the Stone Age, Mastodon, and Skrillex.
Asheville Art Museum
The Asheville Art Museum is the only community based nonprofit visual art organization in Western North Carolina (WNC) and is Accredited by the American Association of Museums. Its vision is to transform lives through art. The mission statement of the Museum is to engage, enlighten and inspire individuals and enrich community through dynamic experiences in American art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Asheville Police Department
The Asheville Police Department (APD) is a nationally accredited police department and the primary law enforcement agency servicing a population of 72,789 people within 40.0 square miles of the municipality of Asheville, North Carolina.
Jackson Building (Asheville, North Carolina)
The Jackson Building is a 140 ft (43m) 15-story building in Asheville, North Carolina which was completed in 1924 in Pack Square downtown. It was the first skyscraper in western North Carolina.
Asheville Female College
The Asheville Female College was the first institution of higher education in the western portion of North Carolina, founded as the Asheville Female Seminary in 1841 by John Dickson, M.D. and Rev. Erasmus Rowley, D.D. The school had its first quarters on the corner of Patton Avenue and Church Street in Asheville, North Carolina.
Tupelo Honey Cafe
Tupelo Honey Cafe is a restaurant located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, specializing in Southern cooking. The restaurant was established in 2000. The current owner is Stephen Frabitore and the executive chef is Brian Sonoskus. Sonoskus purchased a 12-acre farm that he named "Sunshot Organics" to supply a great deal of the ingredients for the restaurant's dishes. The cafe recently launched a new product line in an effort to fund a worker-HMO program.
Cathedral of All Souls
The Cathedral of All Souls, also referred to as All Souls Cathedral, is an Episcopal cathedral located in Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America. Cathedral of All Souls was built by railroad baron George Washington Vanderbilt II in 1896 to serve as the local parish church for Biltmore Village, which had been developed near his Biltmore Estate, The Right Reverend G. Porter Taylor is the current bishop seated at the cathedral.
Firestorm Cafe & Books
Firestorm Cafe & Books is a worker-owned and self-managed "anti-capitalist business" located in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Named after the eponymous natural phenomenon, this infoshop operates with an eye on creating a sustainable, radical community event space.
The Bon Marché Building of Asheville, North Carolina
The Bon Marché Building of Asheville, North Carolina was built in 1923 by E.W. Grove for the store's owner, Solomon Lipinsky. This was several years before Grove began construction on nearby Grove Arcade, one of Asheville’s most famous architectural landmarks. The Bon Marché building was designed by W.L. Stoddart, a hotel architect who also designed the Battery Park Hotel and Vanderbilt Hotel.
Western North Carolina Nature Center
The Western North Carolina Nature Center is a zoological park operated by the City of Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department.. Until 1973, it was known as the Asheville City Zoo and was then renamed the Children's Zoo and Nature Center. It received its current name in 1974 when formed as a non-profit charity to develop the zoo which ultimately opened in 1976.