The PGA Biltmore Championship Travel Guide
Where to stay, eat, and play near the newest PGA Tour stop
By Eric Barton | April 27, 2026
For the first time since Ben Hogan was walking fairways in Asheville, the PGA Tour is coming back to town. The Biltmore Championship runs September 17–20 at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, a Jack Nicklaus-designed course in Arden that manages the rare golf trick of being both serious and seriously pretty.
And if you’re coming to town to catch the play, we’ve put together this guide for where to stay, eat, hike, drink, and play close to the tournament. This isn’t an Asheville guide—you can find that here. This is a guide specifically for the Biltmore Championship itself, making sure you’re spending as little time as possible in the car and more time exploring Western North Carolina.
I’ve kept the list tight: three hotels, three restaurants, three hikes, three breweries, three attractions, and three public golf courses. Not the most famous places in Asheville by default, and not the ones that require crossing town three times and apologizing to everyone in the car. Instead, these are the spots that make sense for a tournament week at Walnut Cove: close enough to be useful, good enough to justify the trip, and, ideally, far enough from the worst of the parking lot operetta.
Where to Stay Near the Biltmore Championship
Tournament week is not the time to prove a point about how far someone can drive after dinner. These hotels keep the trip focused on the course, South Asheville, Biltmore Village, and the parts of town that make the most sense for a Walnut Cove weekend.
Asheville River Cabins
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Asheville River Cabins is for anyone who wants the Biltmore Championship trip to still feel like a mountain trip. The Arden property sits just four miles from Walnut Cove, with cabins and Airstreams, private French Broad River frontage, fire pits, grills, furnished porches, and some cabins with hot tubs and full kitchens. It’s close enough to make tournament days manageable, but it trades the usual hotel routine for coffee by the river, a fire at night, and the useful illusion that the rest of the world has been put on airplane mode.
Best for: A quieter riverfront stay near the course
Grand Bohemian Lodge
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The Grand Bohemian is the polished Biltmore Village option, with the Biltmore Estate nearby and a heavier sense of occasion than a standard hotel. The Autograph Collection property leans into the lodge look with art, dark wood, marble bathrooms, a spa, valet parking, and Red Stag Grill downstairs, which makes it useful for anyone building a full Asheville weekend around the championship. At night, the Red Stag downstairs has the exact kind of martini-wedge-salad-tomahawk menu needed after a day on the course.
Best for: A PGA weekend that feels like a proper Asheville getaway
Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park
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Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park is the easy South Asheville choice, and for tournament week, easy matters. It’s in Biltmore Park Town Square, close to I-26 and Asheville Regional Airport, with free self-parking, an indoor pool, a fitness center, Sensibilities Day Spa, and Roux downstairs for breakfast or dinner when the day has already involved enough movement. The location also puts restaurants, shops, coffee, and a movie theater within a short walk, which is exactly the kind of small convenience that starts looking brilliant after a full day at Walnut Cove.
Best for: Staying close to Walnut Cove with the least logistical drama
Where to Eat Near the Biltmore Championship
This isn’t the full Asheville restaurant list—we have that covered here. These are the places that make sense during championship week: close enough to work, good enough to remember, and varied enough to cover breakfast, dinner, and the meal where everyone finally admits they’re tired.
Biscuit Head
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Biscuit Head’s South Asheville location is the breakfast move, especially for anyone staying near Biltmore Park or heading toward Walnut Cove early. The Hendersonville Road shop serves the same oversized biscuits, gravy options, fried green tomatoes, jalapeño pimento cheese, pulled pork biscuit, biscuit and gravy, and full breakfast plates that made the place an Asheville staple, with the practical advantage of being closer to the tournament than the better-known Haywood Road location. It’s open daily from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., which is enough time to build a day around a biscuit and still pretend the plan was athletic.
Best for: A fast, local breakfast before golf
Posana Biltmore Park
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Posana’s South Asheville location is the right kind of tournament-week restaurant: close, polished, and not asking anyone to make a pilgrimage downtown after a day outside. The Biltmore Park menu keeps the restaurant’s seasonal, locally sourced approach, with dishes like seared pork belly with hoe cakes and ramp-green tomato chow chow, ricotta hushpuppies with baby heirloom tomato salad, meatballs with polenta and tomato gravy, and roasted beet with Three Graces bondon and candied cashew. It’s also entirely gluten-free, which makes it one of the rare nice restaurants where the person with a dietary restriction doesn’t have to quietly negotiate dinner like a hostage release.
Best for: A polished dinner close to the course
The Silo Cookhouse
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The Silo Cookhouse is the most Western North Carolina choice here, set on The Horse Shoe Farm in Hendersonville with brunch and dinner open to the public daily. With the talented Brett Suess at the helm, the restaurant leans into communal dining and farm-country hospitality, with breakfast, brunch, dinner, cocktails, wine, and weekly specials that have included half-off wine bottles, grilled oysters, and sunset music by the silo. It’s not the fastest option, and that’s partly the point; this is the meal for a night when tournament week needs a porch, a view toward Mount Pisgah, and dinner that doesn’t feel like it was built around a reservation algorithm.
Best for: A slower dinner with mountain-farm scenery
Where to Hike Near the Biltmore Championship
The course already comes with Blue Ridge views, but it would be a shame to come this close to Pisgah and only admire the mountains from behind a rope line. These hikes range from easy and close to more ambitious Parkway outings.
Bent Creek
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Bent Creek is the easiest hiking call for Biltmore Championship week because it’s close to South Asheville, generous with options, and doesn’t require turning the morning into an expedition. The Bent Creek Experimental Forest has miles of trails near Lake Powhatan and the North Carolina Arboretum, so the day can be as modest as a shaded walk by the water or as ambitious as a longer loop into the woods. It’s also full of mountain bike trails that run from easy loops doable on a gravel bike to full-on downhill bombs.
Best for: An easy, close-to-town hike with room to improvise
Graveyard Fields
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Graveyard Fields is farther from Walnut Cove, but it earns the drive with waterfalls, high-elevation air, and one of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s most recognizable landscapes. The loop sits at Milepost 418.8 and runs through a wide, open basin shaped by old logging and fire, with access to waterfalls and, in season, wild blueberries that make the place feel less manicured than most postcard hikes. It’s extremely popular, so this is not the hike for drifting over after brunch and expecting a parking space to appear out of civic kindness, but head there early-ish and you’ll likely be rewarded with watching the morning fog lift majestically from the valleys below.
Best for: Waterfalls, fall color, and a Parkway hike that feels worth the drive
Mount Pisgah
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Mount Pisgah earns its views with a short, steep hike accessible right off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The summit trail is 1.6 miles each way with 712 feet of climbing, and the second half gets rocky enough to remind everyone that “moderate” is an adjective to be taken seriously. The payoff is the kind of open Blue Ridge view that makes all those stops to take a breath feel absolutely worth it.
Best for: A classic Parkway climb with a real summit view
Breweries Near the Biltmore Championship
In Asheville, you’re never far from one of the city’s best breweries. For this guide, I’ve kept it close to the course, with Mills River stops that work after golf, after a hike, or after pretending tournament walking counts as cardio.
Appalachian Mountain Brewery
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This Mills River taproom gives the trip a more local, lower-key stop, with beer, cider, hard sweet tea, cocktails, wine, and a food menu near the entrance to Pisgah National Forest. The brewery started in Boone, and the Mills River location brings that mountain-town identity much closer to the Biltmore Championship. It’s a useful middle ground between a quick beer and a full evening, especially for anyone heading toward Pisgah or coming back from a hike.
Best for: Beer, cider, and the food to go with them
Mills River Brewing Co.
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Mills River Brewing is the practical nearby brewery that doesn’t need to turn every pint into a manifesto. It has beer, bourbon, regular live music and events, plus a food truck menu with burgers, wings, pizza, sandwiches, and the kind of fried things that make sense after a day of walking a golf course. It also has something you find at few Asheville breweries: a full bar, which means this is the choice if someone in the group isn’t a beer drinker. It’s casual, dog-friendly, and close enough to Walnut Cove to work as the easy final stop before calling the day done.
Best for: A casual beer-and-food stop near Walnut Cove
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
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Mention you’re traveling to Asheville and everybody will almost certainly mention the Biltmore first and then Sierra Nevada. But it’s the obvious choice for a good reason. This is less a taproom than a small, highly engineered beer campus, with tours, a big restaurant with good food, a back porch, fire pits, gardens, a manicured hiking trail, and enough room to handle a crowd without making everyone drink an IPA shoulder to shoulder. It’s also one of the easiest post-golf calls from Walnut Cove, especially for anyone who wants dinner, beer, and the feeling of having done the Asheville brewery thing without committing to a downtown crawl.
Best for: The full brewery experience closest to the course
What to Do Near the Biltmore Championship
In the middle of summer, I might have sent you on the river with Zen Tubing or on a zip line with Navitat. But these attractions keep the trip close to the tournament while still recognizing September in Asheville isn’t typically bathing-suits-and-Sliding-Rock weather.
Asheville Jeep Tours
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This is the attraction for people who want the Blue Ridge Parkway views from the relative comfort of a Jeep converted into a multi-passenger explorer. The company runs guided tours through the mountains, with paved-road Parkway routes, scenic overlooks, sunrise trips, and customized outings that make sense for mixed groups where one person wants altitude and another person wants a seatbelt. It’s especially useful during a golf weekend because it delivers the big Asheville scenery without turning the day into a second endurance sport.
Best for: Blue Ridge views without a full hike
Biltmore
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Biltmore is the Asheville attraction everyone already knows about, which doesn’t make it wrong. The estate covers 8,000 acres, with Biltmore House, the gardens, Antler Hill Village, the winery, restaurants, shops, and enough side quests to turn a quick visit into a full day if nobody in the group takes charge. For a Biltmore Championship trip, it’s also thematically tidy: golf at Walnut Cove, then a visit to the house that still looms over Asheville’s tourism economy like a French château with a marketing department.
Best for: The classic Asheville attraction with a full-day itinerary
The North Carolina Arboretum
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The North Carolina Arboretum is one of the easiest wins near Walnut Cove: 434 acres of gardens, trails, exhibits, and wooded paths just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, with an admission of just $25 per car. It works for almost every kind of group, from people who want bonsai and cultivated gardens to people who want a walk through the woods without having to change out of those loafers. It’s also close enough to South Asheville that it can be a full morning, a soft landing after golf, or a place to quietly recover from one too many brewery stops.
Best for: Gardens, easy trails, and a low-stress outdoor stop
Where to Golf Near the Biltmore Championship
If watching professionals hit fairways has you feeling like you need to get out there yourself, these public courses are the best nearby bets for getting in a round without turning the day into a cross-county errand.
Broadmoor Golf Links
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Broadmoor is the closest and easiest public round for Biltmore Championship week, near Asheville Regional Airport and a short drive from Walnut Cove. The course plays as a links-style layout rather than a mountain course, with bentgrass greens, Bermuda fairways, bluegrass and fescue rough, six tee options, and a full 7,000 yards from the back tees. There’s also The Bevy Bar & Grill on site, which makes it useful for a foursome that wants to play 18 and waste no time hitting the bar and getting a fine burger.
Best for: The closest public round to the tournament
Chestnut Mountain Golf Club
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Chestnut Mountain Golf Club is the mountain round close by, with elevation changes, wooded fairways, ponds, and Blue Ridge views. The club offers public tee times, weekday and weekend green fees, and a proper 18-hole layout that feels more specifically Western North Carolina than the flatter, more forgiving courses closer to the airport. It’s the pick for golfers who want to remember they’re in the mountains even after they’ve three-putted like they’re back home.
Best for: A public mountain course close to South Asheville
Etowah Valley Golf Club
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Etowah Valley is the most expansive option, with 27 holes in Etowah and a resort setup that includes a driving range, putting green, pro shop, restaurant, lounge, lodging, and five sets of tees. The course dates to the 1960s and gives visiting golfers the useful tournament-week advantage of variety: play 18, choose a different nine, and keep the day from feeling like a rerun. It’s farther west than Broadmoor and Chestnut Mountain, but it makes sense for anyone who wants a full golf day rather than a quick add-on around the championship.
Best for: A full golf outing with 27-hole flexibility
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