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Welcome to the LocalWiki for Asheville! This is a collaborative, community-driven effort to share local info about the Asheville/Buncombe County area. We invite you to share what you know with our community and everywhere else. It is a guide written by US!

Learn more about how this LocalWiki started here. Want to learn how you can contribute to the Asheville/Buncombe LocalWiki? Anyone can edit this website. Just click Edit at the top of any page and jump in. Your contributions will help make the Asheville LocalWiki even more useful, holistic, and the true picture of this amazing place we live in. Can't find a page on something? Make one! 

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Asheville also serves as a hub for a lot of additional activity in the Western North Carolina (WNC) region.  Feel free to contribute information about WNC to this wiki also.


NC Buncombe County

Buncombe County, North Carolina

 

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 238,318. The official Asheville metropolitan area is comprised of Buncombe County and three of it's surrounding Counties, Haywood County (East), Madison County (North), and Transylvania County (South). However, as the majority of Western North Carolina (WNC) is rural, Buncombe County, and specifically Asheville, functions as an economic hub for many neighboring or close-by counties. Go here to learn more about other WNC counties.

 

 


Information

See the information below for category pages to help you start learning about what's going on in Asheville and Buncombe County:

Food & Drink

Local Food System

Restaurants

Food Policy Council

The Beer Scene

 

Culture

Art Scene

Music Scene

Education

Movies

Theater

Comedy

 

Health & Wellness

Health 

Hospitals

 

Environment

Energy

 

 

Technology

Asheville Makers

WNC Game Developers

 

Digital Resources

OpenWNC

http://www.openwnc.org/

WNCTech Slack

http://wnctech.slack.com

Asheville Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/asheville/

 

Outdoors

Mountains

Parks

 

Community

For Tourists & Visitors

For Families & Kids

For People Relocating to AVL

For 50+ Demographic

Neighborhoods

Community Resources Guide

Community Resources Map

 

Economics

Community Wealth

 

Governance

Local Government & Politics

 

Media

Local Media

 

History

History

 

Transportation

Buses

Rides

 

Social Justice

Race in Asheville

 

Other

Homesteading & Gardening

Service & Non-Profit Organizations

Asheville Meetups

 


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