Would you like to visit some of the thousand artists that now call the Asheville area home? With over 40,000 copies of the first two editions sold, The Craft Heritage Trails of Western North Carolina (by HandMade in America) stand as the definitive guide to art and craft in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. It is the only guide you will need to find open studios, galleries, craft-related bed & breakfasts, inns and restaurants as well as historic sites near Asheville.

The book is arranged in eight blue highway tours, each one looping back to or near its starting point and most within easy connection to the Blue Ridge Parkway, and covers over a thousand miles of back roads and scenic byways from Murphy to Sparta. One tour, Circle the Mountain, literally encircles Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the East, visiting the campus and studios of Penland School, one of the most revered craft schools in the nation and a place that has, in turn, given birth to a number of craft communities in Western North Carolina. The guidebook fits in the glove compartment and, in total, describes over 500 stops across 250 pages of lushly illustrated craft. It is published by HandMade in America in Asheville.