Named
"Best Mountain Town"

When planning your day in downtown Brevard, your only challenge will be deciding what to do first!

Start your day off on the Scenic 276 South Fine Art and Craft Corridor, a 13-mile stretch of highway featuring art galleries, working and teaching studios, shops, and fresh local produce. 

Perhaps you can see a waterfall or two along the way. 

Then, just a short walk downtown will take you to dinner.

End your night with live music or maybe some ice cream from Dolly's.

Here's some of the Admissions Office's favorite restaurants in Brevard:

• Big Mike's Pizza
• Pad Thai
• The Square Root
• Sully's Steamers
• The Falls Landing
• Smoky Sunrise
• Rocky's Soda Shop
• Morning Social
• Sora Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar

And coffee shops:

• Earthling Coffee
• Bill's Boiler House (on campus)
• Quotations
• Cup and Saucer
• Bracken Mountain
• Pisgah Bake House (just outside the entrance to Pisgah National Forest)
• The Outpost (on the way to Dupont State Forest)
• Starbucks

And ice cream (of course):

• Dolly's Dairy Bar
• Rocky's Soda Shop
• Kilwins

There's so much to do in Brevard! Here's a sample list:

For Outdoor Adventures:

• We have the following national resources near campus Pisgah National Forest, Dupont Recreational State Forest, Gorges State Forest, and Headwaters State Forest.
  • In these spots you can...
    • Go Waterfall hunting
    • Hiking
    • Mountain Biking
    • Rock Climbing
    • Backpacking
    • Camping
    • Fishing
    • Canoeing on the French Broad Rivers

Performing Arts:

• The Brevard Music Center
• Brevard College's Porter Center

Visual Arts:

• Spiers Art Gallery (on campus)
• Gallery 7
• Red Wolfe Gallery
• Transylvania Arts Council
• Mud Dabbers Pottery
• Brevard Clay

Shops:

• DD Bullwinkle's Outdoors
• Theophilus
• O.P. Taylor's Toys
• Gravy
• Highlands Bookstore

Bike Shops:

• The Hub
• Cycle Worx
• Earth Mountain Bikes
• Sycamore Cycles
• Squatch Bikes
• Next Venture

Breweries (for Mom, Dad, and family members over the age of 21)!

• Brevard Brewing Company
• Noblebrau
• Oskar Blues
• Griffin and Sphinx

The Brevard Music Center, located in the heart of Brevard, has a reputation as one of the nation’s foremost musical summer training programs and festivals.

More than 400 talented music students gather in Brevard each summer to be inspired by the incredible mountain location, study with renowned faculty, and perform with some of the best musicians in the world.

This legendary musical community offers Brevard more than 80 concerts each summer, including orchestra, chamber, and opera performances.

There's more to do just a short drive to Asheville. Here's a sample list:

• The Biltmore Estate
• The Grove Park Inn
• Countless shops and restaurants in Downtown Asheville
• The Orange Peel (live music and entertainment venue)
• Countless breweries (over 50) including Sierra Nevada, Green Man, New Belgium, and Asheville Brewing Company