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There are 26 tunnels and 151 bridges on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Photo by Hugh Morton
Weaverville's downtown is a quaint and walkable assortment of cafes, galleries, and other shops Photo by Myweaverville.com
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Weaverville, North Carolina
828.258.6129
http://www.visitweaverville.com
Near milepost 376
In many ways, time stands still in Weaverville. People gather on the streets to discuss families, work, high school football, and the change of season. The police jiggle doorknobs every evening, making sure shopkeepers remembered to lock up. Walkers and joggers exchange “heys” as they pass at Lake Louise. Garden club volunteers keep downtown plantings a burst of seasonal colors. Weaverville is only six miles from downtown Asheville, but its pace and values are decades away.
Six generations of Weaverville natives have been joined by transplants who share their town pride. Today, visitors come for its personal lifestyle as well as the mountain air and scenery. The grand hotels that brought visitors to the area in 1800s are gone, but the bed and breakfasts are thriving. The arts are blossoming as never before. Good food, good music, good shopping, and a good rest are the legacy of Weaverville’s evolution.
Weaverville is located off the Blue Ridge Parkway near milepost 376. Take the Weaverville/Vance Birthplace turnoff at Bull Gap and follow steep, scenic Ox Creek Road (dubbed the “Ox Creek Plunge” by many the biking enthusiasts) into the Reems Creek Valley, site of the earliest white settlement in former Cherokee territory. Take a right and travel back in time to the Vance Birthplace Historic Site, home of our state’s charismatic Civil War governor. Take a left and you’ll soon find yourself in downtown Weaverville. Born of the commerce created by water-driven mills on Reems Creek, Weaverville grew to become a college town, grand-hotel destination, and now the crafts mecca, retirement destination, and quaint mountain getaway it is today.
