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Attractions near Butler

Leave Butler for Blue Ridge Parkway, 21 mi away

Blue Ridge Parkway welcomes about 16.5M visitors a year. None of our places to visit is inside Butler; 16 are within 40 miles. They include 2 mountains, 2 theme parks and 2 parks & preserves. Drive 43 mi to reach Mount Mitchell.

Attractions nearby
26
within 60 miles
The big one
43 mi
Mount Mitchell
National park units
1
parks & monuments
Ski areas
2
Sugar Mountain Resort
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Mountain · 43 mi south

Mount Mitchell

Highest mountain in the Eastern United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Places on the map

Out at 39 mi is Hatley Pointe, the farthest.

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Orange: Butler. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

All the places to visit

Nothing is inside Butler itself; these 26 are within 60 miles.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Parkway · 21 mi southeast · read 93K times a year on Wikipedia

Scenic parkway that runs between Shenandoah National Park in west central Virginia and Great Smoky National Park in western North Carolina.

16.5M visitors a year
Towns near it → · Official site · Wikipedia

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Butler → · Butler’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Mount Mitchell: Unknown, Public domain · Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Grandfather Mountain: Original uploader was KyleAndMelissa22 at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Mount Rogers: USDA-FS, Public domain · United States Penitentiary: Nyttend, Public domain · Grayson Highlands State Park: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Cherokee National Forest: Ryan Rice at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Linville Gorge Wilderness: No machine-readable author provided. Amcbride~commonswiki assumed (based on copy, Public domain · Sugar Mountain Resort: Mark Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Linville Falls: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Barter Theatre: RebelAt (talk) (Uploads), Public domain · Andrew Johnson National Historic Site: Brian Stansberry, CC BY 3.0 · Moses H. Cone Memorial Park: Bill Russ photographer, Public domain · Botanical Gardens at Asheville: Zen Sutherland aka Zen sutherland at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Folk Art Center: Doug Coldwell, CC BY-SA 4.0

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