• Asheville
• Western North Carolina
• Destinations near Randall Glen

Small enough to be a town but large enough for city vitality, Asheville has a sophisticated variety of cultural offerings. With a surprisingly cosmopolitan population, Asheville boasts a symphony, an excellent art museum, and a thriving Art Deco downtown filled with galleries, boutiques, and fine restaurants. Asheville is home to many fine artists and craftspersons of national stature. It's the venue of a full calendar of major concerts, festivals, and exhibits, from rock and country music to the prestigious Southern Highlands Crafts Guild. A variety of museums and centers range from the Arboretum to the Thomas Wolfe homeplace. Asheville is also the home of America's largest privately owned residence, the magnificent Biltmore Estate, which rivals the palaces of Europe.

The surrounding mountains of Western North Carolina offer every kind of outdoor activity as well as historic sites, theme parks, steam railways, the Cherokee Reservation, Harrah's Casino, and even hot springs spas. The Pisgah National Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the Blue Ridge Parkway give access to many thousands of acres of unspoiled natural beauty, with miles of trails for hiking, horseback riding, and mountain biking. Sports include whitewater rafting, skiing, rock climbing, paintball, golf, fishing, boating, llama trekking-if you can imagine it, you can find it in the Smokies.

Randall Glen is centrally located for everything Western North Carolina offers. Our glen is part of the Pisgah National Forest yet we're only minutes from Asheville.

We're only 5 to 10 minutes from natural and cultural gems including:

• The thriving Leicester community of artist and fine crafts studios, including potters, painters, photographers, and mountain crafts. Of particular note is our neighbor Friendswood Brooms (www.friendswoodbrooms.com), just down the road in the 1896 general store, where second-generation artists make exquisite brooms from native woods and homegrown broom corn

• The nationally renowned Sandy Mush Herb Nursery, offering more than 2,000 varieties of herbs and rare native wildflowers ( www.sandymushherbs.com )
• The Long Branch Environmental Education Center, with nature programs, berry farm, and over 1,600 acres of conservation wilderness ( www.longbrancheec.org )
• Sandy Hollar Farms, with Scottish Highland cattle, llamas, goats, and year round activities including an Easter egg hunt, antique tractor show, corn maze, pumpkin patch, and cut-your-own Christmas trees

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For complete information on area activities, visit Asheville's official tourism site, www.exploreasheville.com. It provides information on everything you can imagine, including weekly fall leaf reports, spring blooming calendar, ski reports, restaurant reviews, concert and festival calendars, plus links to hundreds of area sites.