Urban Trail — Attraction in Asheville

Coming from an urban area in southern California, I did not expect to experience the amount of trash, graffiti and the unbearable smell of urine in a small city in the Appalachians. While this was not everywhere, it was present enough to make the experience less than hoped for. I guess my expectations were influence by visiting the smaller towns in this region. I made the assumption that Asheville was smaller than it really is. The trail does have some interesting features. If you enjoy contemporary urbanism you may enjoy this trail, otherwise keep going. I strongly believe in tolerance for diverse opinions, so "to each their...

We only had an hour and a half to explore Ashville so we followed the urban trail through the first 16 stops. My 10 and 14 year old were not very interested, but my husband and I liked it. It gave us a route to explore the town and the shops instead of walking around randomly and we learned a bit in the process. The website was a bit confusing to use to navigate, the printable map is much easier...

My family and I was visiting from VA drove 2 hours from our cabin to walk the urban trail, but we got there and saw all the homeless and the crack heads walking around with needle marks in the arms and ppl making weird noises that I was too afraid to even get my child out of the car to walk near any of these people. Not even this bad in Atlanta...