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Burnsville, NC is located among some of the highest mountains to be found in Western North Carolina—and in the eastern U.S., for that matter. The town offers living situations and outdoor experiences that go above and beyond the norm, presenting you with many opportunities to Live the Life You Choose.
Just a few miles from Burnsville is one of the most unique communities in the South: Celo, a settlement and land trust founded in 1937. There, some 40 families adhere to a loosely defined humanist ethic and help run a collective farm, and the Arthur Morgan School, a progressive middle school with roots in Quaker values and the Montessori educational approach.
Burnsville (population 1,700) is the largest of the 11 townships in Yancey County, as well as the county seat. Located in the center of the county, Burnsville is 35 miles north of Asheville and 50 miles west of Johnson City, Tennessee. Burnsville offers many amenities within minutes of town, including county and regional libraries, public and private schools (elementary, middle, and high school), Mayland Community College, and a growing number of shopping, entertainment, and dining options. Several health centers are nearby, including a branch of the Blue Ridge Regional Hospital. Nearby Mount Mitchell is accessible by foot via several hiking trails or by bike or vehicle on the Blue Ridge Parkway, a sightseer's and cyclist's haven.
Mars Hill: 24 minutes
Spruce Pine: 23 minutes
Barnardsville: 31 minutes
Weaverville: 33 minutes
Downtown Asheville: 42 minutes
Marion: 51 minutes
Asheville Regional Airport: 52 minutes
Black Mountain: 55 minutes
Yancey County is an elevated county that offers living situations and outdoor experiences that go above and beyond the norm. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north and a stretch of the Appalachian Trail to the south. Just a few miles away from Burnsville looms Mount Mitchell, the tallest peak east of the Mississippi (6,684 feet above sea level). The mountain is surrounded by the 2,000-acre Mount Mitchell State Park, which is full of choice spots for hiking, camping, picnicking, and outdoor education.
Tax rates are per $100 of assessed valuation.
Yancey County: $ 0.6000
Burnsville: $ 0.5050
North Asheville is a collection of active, historic, and growing communities.
In addition to its peaks and valleys, Burnsville is known for its extraordinarily rich artistic output. Yancey County boasts more than 400 full-time and 200 part-time working artists, including basket makers, glassblowers, metal smiths, painters, papermakers, potters, quilters, sculptors, and weavers.
Located just minutes from Burnsville on the border of Yancey and Mitchell Counties is the renowned Penland School of Crafts. Innovative artists—both emerging and established—come from all parts of the country and represent the creative mission of the school. In addition to a sales area, there is a gallery that has an ongoing series of invitational shows and walking tours of the campus.
The performing arts have a strong presence here, as well. Founded in 1947, the Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville is the longest-running community theater in North Carolina. It produces a wide range of performances and has a special dramatic arts education program for children age 4–18. They create distinctive productions for their audiences that often are crafted and performed by artists who live in the community. This commitment makes the theatre experience at the Parkway Playhouse unique.
Twice a year, the Toe River Arts Council sponsors the Toe River Studio Tours, as scores of local artists, from both Yancey and neighboring Mitchell County, open their studios for a free, up-close look inside the creative process. And each August, downtown Burnsville comes alive with local art at the Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair, which has been celebrated for more than 50 years.
The Carolina Mountains Literary Festival is held in Burnsville each September. It started as a small gathering of authors and readers in 2005 and has blossomed into a full-fledged literary happening complete with readings, workshops, plays, and seminars. The event is free and draws some of the region’s most popular writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
One standout Burnsville institution is the Nu Wray Inn, built in 1833. The oldest lodging house in the region, it has hosted such notables as Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, and Elvis Presley. The inn is known both for its historic charms and its signature Southern breakfasts, with most menu items sourced from local farms.
The John Wesley McElroy House was built around the same time, in 1840, and also plays an active part in saluting Burnsville's heritage. McElroy, a local businessman and lawyer (and later a Confederate brigadier general) constructed the 3,000-square-foot home as a mountain mansion for his wife, Catherine. In later years, the family of William Moore, a state senator and Union Army officer, took residence in the home. In the early 1900s, it served as Burnsville's first post office, before being abandoned and falling into disrepair over the decades. The home got a new lease on life in 1987, when a local historical association purchased it and established the Rush Ray Museum of Yancey County History.
