Mondays-Thursdays: PRIVATE FACILITY RENTALS ONLY
Fridays: 10:00am-12:00pm and 4:00pm-9:00pm
Saturdays: 11:00am-8:00pm
Sundays: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Don’t just bounce – LAUNCH! We are more than a trampoline park. We are a family entertainment center that offers fun for all ages. Bounce off the walls, play arcade games, and enjoy delicious food.
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(CLOSED Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, & New Year’s Day)
The WNC Nature Center is Asheville’s premier wildlife park!
The Western North Carolina Nature Center connects people with the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachian Mountain region by inspiring appreciation, nurturing understanding, and advancing conservation of the region’s rich biodiversity.
Today, the Nature Center is one of the primary facilities in Western North Carolina offering school children and adults opportunities to learn about and develop an understanding of their responsibility for this area’s native wildlife and habitats. The WNC Nature Center is home to sixty species of wild and domestic animals and hundreds of species of plants, all representative of this unique bioregion, the Southern Appalachians.
The WNC Nature Center is managed by the City of Asheville.
Mondays: 1:00pm-6:00pm
Tuesdays: CLOSED FOR REPAIRS
Weds, Thurs, & Fris: 2:00pm-9:00pm
Saturdays: 12:00pm-9:00pm
Sundays: 1:00pm-6:00pm
PLAY 35 PINBALL MACHINES & 35 CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES AS LONG AS YOU LIKE FOR $15 PER PERSON.
Play a wide array of pinball machines spanning from the 1950’s to the 21st Century!
Biltmore is Open Every Day. Hours Vary Daily.
Biltmore is George Vanderbilt’s 8,000-acre estate featuring America’s Largest Home® in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, NC. Just as first envisioned, Biltmore is all about home – welcoming and celebrating family and friends, and extending the spirit of Biltmore beyond our 8,000 acres. It was true in 1895, and it remains true today. From the historic house and its gardens and grounds to outdoor adventures, dining, shopping, and wine tastings, Biltmore offers something for everyone… all in one unforgettable place.
George Vanderbilt’s daughter Cornelia spent her childhood exploring and playing at Biltmore. More than a century later, the estate is still the perfect place to create lifelong family memories. LEARN MORE ABOUT VISITING BILTMORE WITH CHILDREN HERE
Open daily 11am–6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Late-night Thursdays until 9pm;
Pre-purchased online tickets are encouraged; walk-in tickets are also available.
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The Asheville Art Museum presents exhibitions and public programs based on its Collection of 20th + 21st century art. Founded by artists in 1948 in Asheville, NC, the Asheville Art Museum annually presents an exciting, inviting and active schedule of exhibitions and public programs based on its Permanent Collection of 20th and 21st century American art.
The Wells Fargo Art PLAYce is a creative space for everyone to play and learn together. Although designed for our youngest visitors, the Art PLAYce encourages creative wanderings for all ages in a sensory-rich environment. This art-inspired space allows for exploration of colors, shapes, textures, and patterns. Visitors can move and play, sit and enjoy a book, try out a variety of one-of-a-kind interactives created by regional artists, or make art of their own. The Art PLAYce is the perfect place to disconnect from the outside world.
The Museum’s rooftop Perspective Café serves freshly prepared lunch fare created with locally sourced ingredients. A variety of local snacks and beverages are also available, including Poppy’s Popcorn, French Broad Chocolates, Asheville beers, organic coffee, wine, and cocktails. Whether you choose to sit inside the Café or outside on the Sculpture Terrace, you’ll be astonished by the panoramic city skyline and mountain views. Perhaps the most beautiful vista found in Downtown Asheville.
Sundays: 1:00pm-5:00pm
Mondays: 10:00am-5:00pm
Tuesdays: CLOSED
Wednesdasy: 10:00am-5:00pm
Thursdays: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Friday: 10:00am-5:00pm
Saturdays: 10:00am-5:00pm
Children 2 & under are always FREE
The Asheville Museum of Science is the best place to bring the whole family for edutainment in downtown Asheville, NC. Bring the family and discover the science that makes Western North Carolina unforgettable. Tour our Colburn Hall of Minerals, watch as topography changes as you interact with our Terra Box, climb in our Cradle of Forestry exhibit, go back in time with our Teratophoneus dinosaur skeleton, and so much more!
Sundays-Thursdays : 8am-10pm
Friday & Saturday: 8am-12am
Well Played is proud to be Asheville’s gaming oasis, where you can choose from a selection of over 700 games, from the classics to the cutting-edge.
Not a big gamer? No problem! They have Gamemasters on hand who will help you choose the right adventure for your experience level and group size. Bring your friends or family, and stay for food, snacks, coffee, and beer!
Wednesdays: 10:00am-5:00pm
Saturdays: 10:00am-5:00pm
Sundays: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Wednesdays: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Saturdays: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Sundays: 12:00pm-5:00pm
Do you remember the roar of a big radial aircraft engine thundering into life? Or maybe you only have heard about it from Grand Dad’s reminiscences. Well it is still alive, and you can come hear it again here at the Western North Carolina Air Museum.
Come see what is was like: When airports had grass strips and didn’t have fences. When you could wash the airplanes for a ride, and when you could walk right up to the flight line and see, touch, & smell the excitement, up close & personal… come back in time to the Western North Carolina Air Museum.
If you remember when flying was an event instead of a burden, when climbing into an airplane was more exciting than riding a bus, and when every head turned at the sound of a motor buzzing overhead, then rediscover that excitement at the Western North Carolina Air Museum. Here the excitement lives on. It echoes in the fabric wings of the airplanes that brought it to life. It floats in the scent of avgas on a plane just returning from a flight. It lives in the people who show you around and answer questions – most are veterans of that golden age when not everyone knew how to fly, but every kid sure wanted to learn.
Set beside an active airport – we are more than just a place to look at planes. We’re a place to relive a moment in time that is rapidly passing away. You won’t find airplanes under glass. You won’t find velvet ropes to keep you away. You won’t find guards and ticket sellers and concessionaires.You’ll only find airplanes and people who love them. Many are pilots: Some even own and fly some of the airplanes that are on display. If you’re lucky enough to visit on a day when someone is going up, you might just be able to see a flying piece of aviation history.
We’re home to a unique collection of airplanes celebrating the Golden Age of Aviation, the decades surrounding the Second World War, when flying commanded the world’s attention and an airplane was in everybody’s future.
A place for flying folks to share memories of a disappearing era. And a place to show the young ones a proper airplane, with taut fabric over wooden spars, a single propeller at the nose, and a little wheel under the tail. We are also a place where you can see the actual restoration of such aircraft, as it is happening and talk to the people doing the work. People who will take the time to answer you questions and explain the work they are doing .
The Western North Carolina Air Museum is a center of living history in the popular Hendersonville – Flat Rock region of the state. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to remember flying the way it used to be. Bring your kids, your camera, and your leather jacket. You can view the airplanes in an hour or so, or spend the afternoon hanger-flying with our friendly, informative staff. We can’t guarantee fine weather, but our hangar doors are open rain and shine. And we can’t guarantee that we’ll be flying on the day you visit, but we do promise to propel your imagination back to the golden age of general aviation. Come for the airplanes. Stay for the memories. There’s plenty of both right here at the Western North Carolina Air Museum.
The Mineral and Lapidary Museum of Henderson County was founded with the goal of providing a place where people could discover and learn about the beauty and diversity of the world beneath our feet.
The museum’s goal is to be a primary resource for education and information to the community on the earth sciences related to geology and paleontology.
The museum currently features a mix of exhibits that range from specimens of raw minerals in their natural state to polished gemstones and other finished material. The museum also hosts special exhibits of collections on loan.
Among the popular highlights of the exhibits are the displays of minerals found in Henderson County and in the state of North Carolina — which has one of the nation’s most diverse mineral deposits, the exhibit on the Hendersonville meteorite, and the fluorescent mineral display. Also popular, especially with youngsters, are the museum’s displays of fossils which are highlighted by a casting of a tyrannosaurus rex skull, a mastodon tusk and teeth, and a wooly mammoth leg bone.
Visitors to the museum will quickly discover that there is more under our feet than dirt and that there is much more to rocks than most suspect.
The Mineral Museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and is volunteer run.
Wednesdays 1:00pm-3:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am-2:00pm
Free parking on the streets and FREE admission to Visitors.
The Apple Valley Model Railroad Club is one of the Top Tourist destinations in Western North Carolina. Our HO layout is located inside the Historic 1902 Hendersonville, N.C. Railroad Depot. It occupies an area of 22’x100’ and has a Western North Carolina setting. Our main yard is Asheville, N.C. where mainline trains run south to Spartanburg, S.C. and east to Spencer, N.C. At Hickory, N.C., the Carolina and Northwestern railroad departs to an upper level through Lenoir and Mortimer and joins with the W.M. Ritter logging railroad at Edgemont. Our G Scale All-Weather Layout is located outside behind the Depot.
We use a Digital Command Control (DCC) radio system to control the railroads. The tall mountainous scenery has view blocks that makes it necessary for operators to actually walk around and follow their trains as they progress thru the layout. Track signals are installed to help members safely operate their trains.
The scenery is complete but the railroad still requires added details to enhance the overall effect. Visitors can expect to see a wide variety of locomotives and rolling stock as the club has a large collection of equipment. Members also bring their own equipment to run as well.
There are many aspects of model railroading that involve operation of the railroad and the model trains in a manner that very nearly replicates prototype operations. Many model railroaders today, including some of our members, are particularly interested in this aspect of the hobby. Once a month we conduct prototypical operating sessions.
The club is located in the 1902 Hendersonville depot by the former Southern Rwy route through the famous Saluda Grade on active tracks now used by shortline Blue Ridge Southern RR. Around the corner are a bakery, coffee shop, pizza place, restaurants, ice cream shop, coffee shop and two micro-breweries. We are only a few blocks from downtown Hendersonville.
The historic 7th Ave District was the primary commercial area of Hendersonville in its early years.