Asheville: Relocation, Retirement and Visitor Guide to Asheville and the North Carolina Mountains

If you're considering Asheville and the North Carolina mountains for living, retirement or just a scouting trip, this is your complete guide to retirement, relocation and visiting the area. In more than 190,000 words and the equivalent of 538 printed pages, it is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and candid guide to the Asheville area.

Is Asheville, as one conservative North Carolina politician called it, a "cesspool of sin"? Or is it, as dozens of magazines, newspapers and books have claimed, one of the best places to live and visit in the U.S.?

Lan Sluder is the author of more than a dozen top-selling books on travel and retirement for Fodor's, Frommer's, Avalon, Equator and other publishers. An Asheville native, he provides the straight, no-holds-barred facts about living, retiring and visiting Asheville and the beautiful North Carolina mountains.

Get detailed information on Asheville living, hotels, restaurants, tours, outdoor adventures and more. It covers taxes in North Carolina, the ins and outs of moving here and how to get involved locally. Plus it has comprehensive chapters on Asheville area attractions like the Biltmore Estate, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway and fun activities in the highest mountain peaks in Eastern America. Illustrated with many photos.