10 Things to do in Brevard That You Shouldn't Miss

Brevard Music Center is, at once, a place, a summer institute, and a festival. The Music Center is situated on a wooded 180-acre campus in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. Founded in 1936, the Music Center has matured into one of this country's premier summer training programs and festivals. More than 400 gifted students, ages 14 through post-college, come to the Music Center to study with members of a distinguished artist faculty and with renowned guest artists. For seven weeks, students participate in a vigorous program of instruction that includes ensembles, private lessons, and chamber music. Brevard's hallmark is the powerful sense of community that re-emerges every June, as faculty and students work together to present more than 80 concerts to the public. The total audience each summer numbers more than 30,000. For decades the Brevard Music Center has inspired devotion not only among its students and faculty but also among its listeners and among a vast corps of volunteers. That hundreds of persons have purchased homes in western North Carolina expressly to be near the Brevard Music Center gives some measure of the Center's significance to its community.

Brevard, NC's Crystal Mountain Gem Mine brings you the unique experience of engaging in your own Gem Mining adventure! By joining us in our downtown Gem Mine - full of precious gems from private mine shafts around the world - you're able to mine for your own gemstones and try your luck at striking it rich! Just like a real prospector from the 1800's! You get to keep everything you find!

The Whistlestop is a gourmet market and produce stand featuring North Carolina grown, raised, and made products. We carry a wide variety of: local grown seasonal fruits and vegetables, meats, cheeses, raw unfiltered honey, spices, nuts, bread, jams, jellies, craft beers, hand selected wines, ice, potted plants, flowers, herbs, starter plants, firewood, birdseed, & Taste of the Wild Pet Food.

Red Wolf Mountain Bike Tours offers guided mountain bike rides in Pisgah National Forest & Dupont State Forest. Our guides focus on ensuring that you have the most fun possible while on the trail. Trips are designed with your individual skill level in mind. Want a fast paced hammer fest? Cool, we can do that. Want to take it easy and check out the waterfalls? Awesome, we can do that as well! All of our trips are private, so you never have to worry about getting lumped in with another group.