Pictures from Biltmore

Here are some pictures I took of Biltmore today. You are not allowed to take pictures inside the house. From the campsite we can see the Builtmore Estate.

From the campsite you can see the estate so I took some pictures from here.

If you click on the picture you can see a larger version. The inn is on the left at the top of a hill, the village is below the inn to the left of the hydro pole in the picture and the house is on the far right. It is 3 miles from the front gate to the house and 5 miles from the house to village. The speed limit is 30 mph on a lot of the roads.

The Inn - this is a 4 Diamond rated hotel. It is one of the top 500 hotels in the world.

These two pictures are Antler Village. They include the winery, outdoor adventure, brew pub / restaurant, creamery, black smith, and farm. You have to drive past the bass lake to get from the house to the village.

This is a picture of Builtmore from the campsite. This is the back side of the house.

This is the house as you approach it from the front. The original stables are hidden by the trees on the right. That is where we had lunch.

So there are 4 acres of floor space in the house, about 175,000 square feet, a private railroad was built to move the bricks made on the property to the house during construction, a pipe organ in the dining room and two rivers runs through the property. The pool in the house had underwater lights before most houses in America had electricity.

It has at least 14 parking lots and 15+ shuttle busses run about every 5 minutes from the parking lots to the house or village. A number of parking lots were full today. They have staff dedicated to guide you to the next available parking spot.

A day pass was $45 each. They have yearly passes ($125) and for $145 you can ride the bike trails or an equestrian pass ($200+) that allow you to ride the horse trails. They also have special tours, fly fishing lessons, Land Rover Driving School, Segway tours, skeet shooting and more.

We were there on a sunny warm winter Sunday - so it is off season and it was very busy. I can only imagine how many people would be there in the summer.