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Apr 13, 2009
Wow, check out this great directory of local parks and green ways around Asheville. You’ll find many local hotspots. From Vance Birthplace, NC Arboretum, Buncombe County’s 44 Acre Sports Park & the Folk Art Center to many Local Pools, Golf Courses, and the Western NC Nature center. Have some time to enjoy outdoors? Try exploring North Asheville’s Beaver Lake, tour the famous Biltmore Estate, take a cruise on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Thrash Skate Parks, Enjoy Local Hiking trails and much more.
Discover amazing family fun outdoor opportunities around Asheville with this handy online resource: Year of the Park (via Google Maps)
This is a fabulous online resource that everyone should bookmark.
Asheville contains many options for the golf enthusiast, including several award winning courses. If you are looking for a round or two of Mountain Golf, you’re in luck. Surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains nearly every course in town offers spectacular views.
The Grove Park Inn hosts a magnificent par 70 - 6,600 yard, 18 hole golf course that opened in 1899. Located in North Asheville,
The Grove Park Inn Course was named “One of America’s Ten Best Courses over 100 Years Old” by Golf Digest magazine. An excellent example of mountain golf, with elevated tees you’ll experience drives which soar on forever, coming to rest upon beautiful tree lined fairways. Exceptionally maintained bent grass greens await you. Don’t miss this one, you’ll savor every minute.
In 1828 a road following the French Broad River was completed to Tennessee, which brought wagons and herds moving through town. The Asheville and Greenville Plank Road was built in 1851, and the wealthy aboard four and six horse stages began to come to Asheville as a health resort.
During the Civil War, out of the ten companies of North Carolina Regiment seven of them were Buncombe county men. The Buncombe Rifles marched forth on April 18, 1861 with a flag made of silk dresses of the ladies of the town. Captain Zebulon Vance organized the Rough and Ready Guards. Enfield Rifles, the gun manufacturer, was a flourishing industry here in town.
The Grove Park Inn began as a dream of restoration. Edwin Wiley Grove owned a pharmaceutical company and made a fortune on his “Tasteless Chill Tonic” which was in everyone’s icebox in those days. He came to Asheville because he believed the fresh mountain air could cure his bronchial problems. When he arrived he was so convinced that he wanted to build a hotel for people to come and renew their health at his resort.
Grove commissioned his son-in-law, Fred Seely (who had no architectural experience) to design and building the hotel. Grove was inspired by the
Old Faithful Inn in
Yellowstone National Park. Grove wanted to build something with a rustic mountain home quality but also magnificent in style. Granite boulders were taken from Sunset Mountain with only ropes and pulleys, a team of mules and 400 workers. The construction took one year, and in July of 1913 the Grove Park Inn opened its doors.
