Photography Tour in Asheville

Free Photography Tour in Asheville with Roamee Pro

Roamee Pro, also known as Roamee, offers a free photography tour route in Asheville. The audio walking tour can include stops such as Blue Ridge Parkway — Stretching 469 miles from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, this scenic road passes through Asheville with multiple access points and reaches its highest elevation at 6,053 feet at Richland Balsam. The parkway attracts roughly 15 million visitors annually, making it the most-visited unit in the National Park System. Near Asheville, overlooks at Craggy Gardens (elevation 5,892 feet) and Graveyard Fields offer some of the most spectacular mountain views on the entire route., plus hidden gems like Lexington Avenue — This sloping downtown street serves as the bohemian spine of Asheville, packed with vintage clothing stores, independent record shops, crystal boutiques, and some of the city's most inventive restaurants. Local musicians frequently busk on corners, and the Lexington Avenue Brewery at the bottom of the hill occupies a converted bus depot from the 1920s. and Grove Arcade — Commissioned by E.W. Grove, the pharmaceutical magnate who also built the Grove Park Inn, this Tudor Gothic public market building opened in 1929 and was designed to be the finest commercial building in America. After decades of federal government use, it was restored in 2002 and now houses specialty food vendors, craft galleries, and restaurants beneath its original vaulted ceilings and terra cotta ornamentation..

Use this page as a starting point for a Asheville walking tour, a free route, or the Roamee app for Asheville. Roamee Pro keeps the route flexible so you can follow the stops, skip ahead, or explore nearby streets at your own pace.

• •Blue Ridge Parkway — Stretching 469 miles from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, this scenic road passes through Asheville with multiple access points and reaches its highest elevation at 6,053 feet at Richland Balsam. The parkway attracts roughly 15 million visitors annually, making it the most-visited unit in the National Park System. Near Asheville, overlooks at Craggy Gardens (elevation 5,892 feet) and Graveyard Fields offer some of the most spectacular mountain views on the entire route.

• •Lexington Avenue — This sloping downtown street serves as the bohemian spine of Asheville, packed with vintage clothing stores, independent record shops, crystal boutiques, and some of the city's most inventive restaurants. Local musicians frequently busk on corners, and the Lexington Avenue Brewery at the bottom of the hill occupies a converted bus depot from the 1920s.
• •Grove Arcade — Commissioned by E.W. Grove, the pharmaceutical magnate who also built the Grove Park Inn, this Tudor Gothic public market building opened in 1929 and was designed to be the finest commercial building in America. After decades of federal government use, it was restored in 2002 and now houses specialty food vendors, craft galleries, and restaurants beneath its original vaulted ceilings and terra cotta ornamentation.

• ›Work the edges of the day. The hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset (plus the blue hour just after) give warm, low, directional light that flat midday can't.
• ›Shoot Blue Ridge Parkway wide for the establishing frame, then hunt the details — a doorway, a sign, a texture — that tell the same story up close.
• ›Chase reflections after rain: puddles, wet cobbles, and glass turn an ordinary street into a symmetrical frame.
• ›Turn around. The best shot is often behind you — and quieter spots like Lexington Avenue give you angles no one else is posting.
• ›Photograph people with respect: a nod or a smile first, and skip anyone who clearly doesn't want the lens. Better photos, fewer problems.