The nearest beachish sort of thing to Asheville is the beach at Lake Lure, about 45 minutes southeast of town.
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A drone video of said beach, showing off the dazzlingly sunny weather for which Western North Carolina is world-famous:
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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