Community Information: Waynesville, NC

Just 30 minutes west of Asheville, North Carolina, in Haywood County, you'll find the mountain town of Waynesville, home of the quintessential Main Street experience and gateway to the Smoky Mountains.

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Haywood County tourism generates around $150 million annually. And, the entire region is also a popular second home getaway for folks who love the Carolina mountain living lifestyle—which at 3,600 feet, is one of the highest around. In our mountain communities and the great outdoors, there are countless ways to Live the Life You Choose.

“The town of Waynesville, and Main Street, is an historic district,” says Mayor Gavin Brown. “One of the interesting facts about Waynesville is we're one of the original participants in the national Main Street program. The property owners in the Town of Waynesville realized that a vibrant, alive downtown was necessary to keep the community itself alive and vibrant. And I'm very proud of the fact that our storefronts are inviting to people. When tourists come here they view Waynesville as the truly Norman Rockwell setting that they envisioned when they grew up.

“Our town itself is now a vibrant place where you see the arts alive, where you see restaurants alive, where you see shops alive, and people actually enjoying their stay in the town of Waynesville,” says Mayor Brown. “Everybody buys into the fact that Waynesville and Main Street is gonna be a place where people walk, where people talk, where people share events. As opposed to a place that you drive through, we're gonna have a little bit of that old town feeling where people are warm to one another and people welcome each other. So, when you come to Waynesville you realize that you really are at home.”

Located near the center of Haywood County’s 554 square miles, Waynesville is an excellent launching off spot to explore Pisgah National Forest, the 500,000-acre Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and nearby Maggie Valley, home to the Cataloochee Ski Area.

“Having lived here all my life I have an affinity and a love for the mountains, themselves,” says Mayor Brown. “My favorite thing to do is to simply get on the expressway and keep going west until the sun sets. And if I get to the Blue Ridge Parkway or I get to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, I just keep on goin' cause there's nothin' to stop me.”

“One of the great things about Western North Carolina is all the varied activities you can do,” says Chris Bates, general manager of the Cataloochee Ski Area. “We usually ski, at Cataloochee, from the beginning of November until the end of March. We're fortunate, here in North Carolina, to enjoy the beautiful, blue Carolina sky a lot of days of the year. We have 17 trails with snowmaking and lights on them for night skiing. And, we have one natural graded area that we use when we get natural snowfall. I try to get out there at least a couple times a week and ski, myself. And just enjoy the product we put out and have a good time sliding down the mountain, because that's what it's all about.


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High mountain peaks surround the town of Waynesville and its quaint, historic Main Street. The town was once billed as the Gateway to the Smokies and is now the seat of Haywood County.

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