EXPLORE ASHEVILLE AND ARDEN
Arabella Heights is a perfect blend of mountain tranquility and easy access to the amenities of Asheville, one of America’s finest small cities. Enjoy long-range mountain views from your beautiful home on Waightstill Mountain, with excellent healthcare, shopping, dining, and outdoor activities just minutes away!
The anchor of Asheville tourism is unquestionably the Biltmore Estate. With multiple restaurants, a winery, and miles of gorgeous trails, it is a year-round destination for visitors and locals alike. Another nearby neighbor is the North Carolina Arboretum. This amazing place features hiking and bicycling trails, a bonsai collection, a holly garden, and a stream garden. Just outside the entrance, find your way onto the Blue Ridge Parkway. The views from the Parkway are famous and the road leads to countless waterfalls, peaks, and towns for hundreds of miles. All of this is just minutes from your Arabella Heights home!
DINING
Asheville and the surrounding mountain communities are a food-lovers paradise! Garden & Gun lauds Asheville as one of ‘The South’s Best Food Towns” (September 2017) and Southern Living includes Asheville as one of “15 Southern Cities All Food Lovers Should Visit Now” (August 2017). The depth in award-winning chefs rivals any city, large or small, in the country. The variety of restaurants, from BBQ to vegan, amazes even the most seasoned foodie. You will have a lifetime of great dining choices to make from your home at Arabella Heights!
SHOPPING
Biltmore Park Town Square is home to restaurants, shops, fitness centers and theaters- all within the Town Square and just minutes away. Asheville Outlets is a short drive from Arabella Heights and boasts 75 band name stores, brimming with great deals. Downtown Asheville is well known for its boutiques and galleries, housed in vintage buildings and within easy walking distance. Plus, towns such as Brevard, Hendersonville, and Greenville, SC are all within an hour or less from Arabella Heights, making your shopping choices virtually endless!
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OUTDOORS
Western North Carolina is well known for its incredible outdoor life, from hiking to biking and playing on the many pristine rivers throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains. Arabella Heights is near to such gems as the North Carolina Arboretum and Bent Creek, the most popular mountain biking spot in the Asheville area. The French Broad River, one of the most ancient in the world, flows right below your mountain. From mellow hikes through endless forests to high speed ziplines and whitewater fun, WNC offers amazing opportunities to get out and play!
CRAFT BREWING
Asheville/Western North Carolina is home to over 40 breweries, earning the title of “Beer City, USA” several times over. Sierra Nevada Brewing is based in Chico, California and started the craft-brewing boom in America. After an intensive search, they chose Mills River, NC as their Eastern US brewing center. Lovingly called Malt Disney or the Biltmore of Beer, this 650-acre jewel has quickly become a required stop for visitors. Just a 10 minutes from Arabella Heights, Sierra Nevada is a great place to dine, explore and impress your visitors!
THE BUZZ
Asheville has become a perennial favorite of list-makers: top ten “Best Cities in the U.S.” (Travel + Leisure, 2016), top choice on “The Best 12 Places to Retire in the U.S.” (Conde Nast Traveler, 2016), and the #1 “Best U.S. Destination for 2017” (Lonely Planet, 2017). These publications (and many more!) have discovered what Asheville residents have known for a while: this area blends world class dining and entertainment with a wildly diverse arts scene, surrounded by the forests and rivers of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
