So title says Asheville but message says Nashville, lol
We have a cabin that is north of Morganton. It's about 45-1hr from Asheville , 30 min to Blowing Rock. It's foothills but just a quick ride to the national forest. Price of land is still not too crazy. Morganton is kind of Asheville-light, more blue collar, less hippy. But still a few breweries, fancy pizza, artiest... but also Walmart, Bojangles, mom&pop hamburger place...
If you go to Marion, it's closer to Asheville, prices go up, there lake property, but still a working town- they grow rocks,lol.
Snow is hit or miss unless you get to higher elevation- day after Christmas we had a light dusting at our cabin but 45 min away in Boone they had about 3-4 inches. Kind of surprised the folks that were from out of town, saw a lot of out of state tagged cars in ditches!
There are some ranges but might just be better to buy enough land to shoot on. We ended up with 20 ac.
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