Asheville Trip Overview
Enjoy a private tour drive through one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world and one of the most beautiful drives in America –the Blue Ridge Mountains. After being picked up in Asheville, your private guide will take you on a six-hour tour, including two short hikes. A dream for all seasons with a gentle snow cover in the winter, breathtaking buds and blossoms in the spring, and sprawling green pastures during the summer, this mountain range is a constantly changing scene of beauty and colours. For lunch, your guide will recommend a place for lunch which serves up the best Southern food and hospitality in Little Switzerland. Your exhilarating day of exploring the Blue Ridge Mountains ends back at your hotel in Asheville, where your guide will drop you off.
Additional Info
Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Asheville, United States
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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What to Expect When Visiting Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Enjoy a private tour drive through one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world and one of the most beautiful drives in America –the Blue Ridge Mountains. After being picked up in Asheville, your private guide will take you on a six-hour tour, including two short hikes. A dream for all seasons with a gentle snow cover in the winter, breathtaking buds and blossoms in the spring, and sprawling green pastures during the summer, this mountain range is a constantly changing scene of beauty and colours. For lunch, your guide will recommend a place for lunch which serves up the best Southern food and hospitality in Little Switzerland. Your exhilarating day of exploring the Blue Ridge Mountains ends back at your hotel in Asheville, where your guide will drop you off.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Blue Ridge Parkway, NC
Drive along a part of the most scenic and beautiful strip of the Blue Ridge Parkway, which stretches across 470 miles and 8 states.
Learn how it has been home to people dating back nearly 12,000 years ago, and includes the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Cherokee tribes.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Pisgah National Forest, Pisgah Forest, NC
Explore the Pisgah National Forest, with hiking trails for people of all experience. Discuss the range’s recent history (the last 400 years) and how European trappers – later American revolutionaries and colonizers – made their homes in the mountains.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Mount Mitchell, Mt Mitchell, North Carolina 28714, USA
See Mount Mitchell – the highest point east of the Mississippi River.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Blowing Rock, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Visit the town of Blowing Rock – the turnaround point for your tour – with its unique geological features and breathtaking views of the forests for which the range is famous.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Swannanoa, Swannanoa, North Carolina
Enjoy stops at quaint towns along the way – like Black Rock and Swannanoa – where you can picture what an idyllic mountain life may be like for you.
Duration: 1 hour
