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The Western North Carolina Nature Center is a 42-acre (17 ha) zoological park in Western North Carolina operated by the City of Asheville. It was originally opened in 1925 and known as Recreation Park Zoo, Craig Park Zoo [ 2 ] , and Asheville City Zoo and housed a wide variety of native and non-native wildlife [ 3 ] .
The North Carolina Arboretum (434 acres (176 ha)) is an arboretum and botanical garden located within the Bent Creek Experimental Forest of the Pisgah National Forest at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, southwest of Asheville, North Carolina near the Blue Ridge Parkway. [1] It is open daily except for Christmas Day.
Asheville, North Carolina, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary 35°33′52″N 82°32′25″W / 35.56445°N 82.54041°W / 35.56445; -82 This article about a location in Buncombe County , North Carolina is a stub .
The highway runs through the town of Black Mountain (15 miles (24 km) east of Asheville). Nearly 3 miles (4.8 km) after crossing I-40, NC 9 ends at the vaulted archway entrance to the town of Montreat.
In Asheville, it went along route Haywood Street across the French Broad River to Jefferson Drive to Patton Drive to Broadway then finally Merrimon Avenue north and out of the city. Going through Weaverville, it continued its concurrency with US 19 till Bald Creek, where it went north with US 19W into Tennessee .
Beaucatcher Mountain is located in a portion of the Appalachian Mountain Range known as the Great Craggy Mountains, in Asheville, North Carolina.Its name was said to have been coined in the mid-1800s [2] by James W. Patton, who once teased his sister-in-law, Charlotte Kerry, after watching her stroll the mountainside with her "beau".
Iris Seaton, Asheville Citizen Times May 10, 2024 at 4:29 PM Aurora borealis, often referred to as the northern lights, has been appearing more often and in a wider range of visibility as of late.
Grove Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 290 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section Asheville. The planned suburban community was originally platted and developed in 1908-1913 and 1914.