Asheville Forest Baths
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Asheville & the Blue Ridge, the places we send friends.
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Shops
Sightseeing
Your home base
- Daymoon Coffeebar — Eat & Drink
- Neng Jr.'s — Eat & Drink
- Hole Doughnuts — Eat & Drink
- The Bull and Beggar — Eat & Drink
- Sovereign Remedies — Eat & Drink
- Tupelo Honey — Eat & Drink
- The Whale — Breweries & Drinks
- Bebettes — Eat & Drink
- White Duck Taco Shop — Eat & Drink
- Foothills Grange — Eat & Drink
- Baby Bull — Eat & Drink
- Little Chango — Eat & Drink
- Ukiah Japanese Smokehouse — Eat & Drink
- Hemingway's Cuba — Eat & Drink
- The Rhu — Eat & Drink
- Rowan Coffee — Eat & Drink
- The Chocolate Fetish — Eat & Drink
- French Broad Chocolate Lounge — Eat & Drink
- Maguro — Eat & Drink
- Chai Pani — Eat & Drink
- Botiwalla by Chai Pani — Eat & Drink
- Laila Asheville — Eat & Drink
- Wicked Weed Brewpub — Breweries & Drinks
- The S&W Market — Eat & Drink
- Old Europe Pastries — Eat & Drink
- Mountain Madre — Eat & Drink
- Cultivated Cocktails Tavern — Breweries & Drinks
- Whistle Hop Brewing — Breweries & Drinks
- Huli Sue's BBQ — Eat & Drink
- Addissae Ethiopian — Eat & Drink
- plant — Eat & Drink
- Crave Dessert Bar — Eat & Drink
- mother bakery — Eat & Drink
- BERADU — Eat & Drink
- Bush Farmhouse — Eat & Drink
- The Local Joint — Eat & Drink
- Tall John's — Eat & Drink
- Terramonga — Eat & Drink
- Wicked Weed Funkatorium — Breweries & Drinks
- The Crow & Quill — Breweries & Drinks
- Hi-Wire Brewing RAD — Breweries & Drinks
- Turgua Brewing — Breweries & Drinks
- Wedge Brewing Co. — Breweries & Drinks
- Sierra Nevada — Breweries & Drinks
- Highland Brewing — Breweries & Drinks
- Botanist & Barrel — Breweries & Drinks
- Antidote at Chemist — Breweries & Drinks
- Imperial — Breweries & Drinks
- Marked Tree Vineyard — Breweries & Drinks
- Jack of the Wood — Breweries & Drinks
- New Belgium Brewing — Breweries & Drinks
- Wildcat Rock Trail — Hikes & Nature
- Strawberry Gap Trailhead — Hikes & Nature
- Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center — Hikes & Nature
- Graveyard Fields Loop Trail — Hikes & Nature
- Fryingpan Mountain Lookout Tower — Hikes & Nature
- Chimney Rock State Park — Hikes & Nature
- Catawba Falls — Hikes & Nature
- Blue Ridge Pastures — Hikes & Nature
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville — Hikes & Nature
- Lookout Mountain Trailhead — Hikes & Nature
- Riverview Station — Things to Do
- The Grey Eagle — Music & Venues
- Zen Tubing — Things to Do
- Asheville Treetops Adventure Park — Things to Do
- Urban Exhale Massage — Things to Do
- Navitat Canopy Adventures — Things to Do
- Biltmore House — Sightseeing
- Girl & Goblin — Shops
- Marquee — Shops
- Lexington Glassworks — Shops
- Asheville Pinball Museum — Things to Do
- Well Played Board Game Cafe — Things to Do
- Blue Spiral 1 — Shops
- Xico — Eat & Drink
- Chorizo — Eat & Drink
- Birdie's Pizza — Eat & Drink
- Hail Mary — Eat & Drink
- Finest — Eat & Drink
- Piccolina — Eat & Drink
- Easy Tiger — Breweries & Drinks
- Hell or High Water — Breweries & Drinks
- Okie Dokies Smokehouse — Eat & Drink
- Ole's Guacamoles — Eat & Drink
- Zillicoah Beer Company — Breweries & Drinks
- Old Fort Gateway Trails — Hikes & Nature
- NC Glass Center — Shops
- Museum of Costume Jewelry — Sightseeing
- Third Room — Music & Venues
- Amboy Riverfront Park — Hikes & Nature
- Montreat Wilderness Trails — Hikes & Nature
- Capella on 9 — Breweries & Drinks
- The Roof at The Radical — Breweries & Drinks
- Wildwood Still — Breweries & Drinks
- Omni Grove Park Inn — Sightseeing
- Craggy Pinnacle — Hikes & Nature
- Grove Arcade — Sightseeing
- Folk Art Center — Sightseeing
- Asheville Art Museum — Sightseeing
- Moogseum — Things to Do
- The Market Place — Eat & Drink
- The Admiral — Eat & Drink
- Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe — Shops
- Green Man Brewery — Breweries & Drinks
- Burial Beer Co. — Breweries & Drinks
- Mount Mitchell State Park — Hikes & Nature
- WNC Nature Center — Things to Do
- LaZoom Comedy Bus Tour — Things to Do
- Looking Glass Falls — Hikes & Nature
- Lake Tomahawk — Hikes & Nature
- Craggy Gardens — Hikes & Nature
- Harrah's Cherokee Center - Asheville — Music & Venues
- Asheville Yards Amphitheater — Music & Venues
- Eulogy — Music & Venues
- Fleetwood's — Music & Venues
- Static Age Records — Shops
- One World Brewing West — Breweries & Drinks
- White Horse Black Mountain — Music & Venues
- The Pure and Proper — Eat & Drink
- Table — Eat & Drink
- Leo's House of Thirst — Eat & Drink
- Potential New Boyfriend — Breweries & Drinks
- Joyful Noise — Breweries & Drinks
- Good Hot Fish — Eat & Drink
- Crusco — Eat & Drink
- Golden Hour — Eat & Drink
- Curate — Eat & Drink
- Sunny Point Cafe — Eat & Drink
- All Day Darling — Eat & Drink
- OWL Bakery — Eat & Drink
- The Orange Peel — Music & Venues
- Asheville Music Hall — Music & Venues
- Asheville Salt Cave — Things to Do
- Battery Park Book Exchange — Shops
- North Carolina Arboretum — Hikes & Nature
- Lake Powhatan — Hikes & Nature
- Bent Creek — Hikes & Nature
- Biltmore Estate + Luminere — Sightseeing
- Tuscan Table — Eat & Drink
- Bev's Steak — Eat & Drink
- Recess Coffee and Baked Goods — Eat & Drink
- Nutmeg — Eat & Drink
- Fairview Community Forest — Hikes & Nature
- Rooted in Wine — Breweries & Drinks
- Auction House Food & Drink Hall — Eat & Drink
- South Paw AVL — Eat & Drink
- Posana Biltmore Park — Eat & Drink
- Cherry Street Gallery — Shops
- Peri Social House — Eat & Drink
- Modern Alchemist Co. — Breweries & Drinks
- Short Sleeves Coffee — Eat & Drink
- Luminosa — Eat & Drink
- Soprana Rooftop Cucina — Eat & Drink
- Le Parisien — Eat & Drink
- The Watch Kitchen & Spirits — Eat & Drink
- Saffron India Barrel House — Eat & Drink
- Mountain Madre North — Eat & Drink
- Taqueria Rosita — Eat & Drink
- ButterPunk — Eat & Drink
- Affogato — Eat & Drink
- Mabel Bakery — Eat & Drink
- Character Study — Breweries & Drinks
- Little Jumbo — Breweries & Drinks
- Hotel Eve — Breweries & Drinks
- Wine & Roses — Breweries & Drinks
- Anoche — Breweries & Drinks
- VISUALS Rooftop Bar — Breweries & Drinks
- Periscope — Breweries & Drinks
- Fitz and the Wolfe — Breweries & Drinks
- Farmese — Breweries & Drinks
- NightShade — Breweries & Drinks
- AVL Clay — Things to Do
- Revival — Music & Venues
- RAD Rendezvous — Shops
- Half Light Honey — Shops
- Ace and Eagle — Things to Do
- Fresh Wood Fired Pizza & Pasta — Eat & Drink
- The Dripolator Coffeehouse — Eat & Drink
- Sarah Sunshine Pottery — Shops
- Sassafras on Sutton — Shops
- The Common Pine — Shops
- Horse + Hero — Shops
- Woolworth Walk — Shops
- Downtown Books & News — Shops
- Harvest Records — Shops
- Flora Botanical Living — Shops
- Odyssey Gallery of Ceramic Arts — Shops
- Mangum Pottery — Shops
- East Fork — Shops
- Honeypot Vintage — Shops
- Kress Emporium — Shops
- Enter the Earth — Shops
- Momentum Gallery — Shops
- Dog & Pony Show — Shops
- Herbiary — Shops
- Tracey Morgan Gallery — Shops
- Firestorm Books & Coffee — Shops
- Emote — Shops
- Chlorophyll — Shops
- Whist — Shops
- Pink Dog Creative — Shops
- Foundation Woodworks — Shops
- Wedge Studios — Shops
- Cotton Mill Studios — Shops
- Grovewood Gallery — Shops
- Rose's Garden Shop — Shops
- Metro Wines — Shops
- Asheville Raven & Crone — Shops
- Honey & the Hive — Shops
- New Morning Gallery — Shops
- Village Antiques & Interiors — Shops
- Blue Goldsmiths — Shops
- Origami Ink — Shops
- Sweeten Creek Antiques & Collectibles — Shops
- The Garage on 25 — Shops
- Chickadees Pottery — Shops
- The Curiosity Shoppe — Shops
- Seven Sisters Craft Gallery — Shops
- NANU Gallery — Shops
- The Green Room Plant Shop — Shops
- Mast General Store — Shops
- Asheville Bee Charmer — Shops
- Sugar Britches — Shops
- Hazel Twenty — Shops
- The Village Potters Clay Center — Shops
- In Blue Handmade — Shops
- Atomic Furnishing & Design — Shops
- South Slope Cheese Company — Shops
- Records in the RAD — Shops
- Mountain Nest Gallery — Shops
- Antique Tobacco Barn — Shops
- Madam Clutterbucket's Neurodiverse Universe — Shops
- Black Mountain Variety — Shops
Perfect Days
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What’s on
Coming up in the mountains
Real festivals, shows, and happenings worth planning around over the next few months.
October
- Saturday, October 3, 2026
Downtown's free celebration of local beer, live music, and Bavarian games in Pack Square Park, gathering regional brewers and food vendors for an afternoon of fall fun.
Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest
Black MountainSunday, October 11, 2026Artisan cheesemakers gather at Oak & Grist Distilling in Black Mountain for tastings and demos benefiting the WNC Cheese Trail.
- October 15–18, 2026
More than 100 juried Appalachian artisans fill Harrah's Cherokee Center downtown with fine wood, clay, and fiber work, plus live demos and mountain music.
- October 16–18, 2026
The beloved world-music and arts festival returns at its new home, Deerfields in Mills River, with global performers, dance, and family workshops right as peak fall color arrives.
- October 17–18, 2026
Juried artisans, mountain music, and food line the shore of Lake Lure in the Hickory Nut Gorge, a scenic fall drive paired easily with Chimney Rock.
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