Black Mountain North Carolina
Not black but green with lush vegetation, this small town 2,400 feet above sea level is called the “front porch of North Carolina.” And not on a mountain but surrounded and shaded by several of them, the town lies in the Swannanoa Valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Only six miles square, this charming, offbeat town (Remember Northern Exposure?) offers a main drag that’s dotted with antique stores, ice cream shops, yarn stores and even an artisan chocolatier where you can create your own hand-picked truffle sampler.
Sports figures Brad Daugherty (formerly of the Cleveland Cavaliers) and 2003 Super Bowl quarterback Brad Johnson both grew up here, breathing clean air and playing after-school sports at the local high school. As well as sports heroes, the area has also sheltered artists as the home of Black Mountain College, one of the great experimental learning institutions in American educational history. The college helped spearhead the avant-garde art movement of the sixties with grads, guest lecturers and alumni that included Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller and Albert Einstein.
Now home to great indie coffee shops and a small but enticing downtown shopping area, Black Mountain offers a golf club, great cappuccino and the homey charm of a sleepy one-stoplight mountain town.
Black Mountain NC Real Estate
~ WNC Area Town Guide ~
Larry Barousse
(828) 577-9491
larry-at-carolinalivingproperties.com
Licensed Broker with Rob McKown Realty, Inc.