Biltmore Estate
A Châteauesque mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and still owned by his descendants. With some 16,600 square metres of floor space it is the largest privately owned house in the United States.
- Where
- Asheville, North Carolina, United States
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 35.5400, -82.5519
Get the Biltmore Estate stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Biltmore Estate. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your North Carolina volume with your photos and a note.
Near Biltmore Estate
Great Smoky Mountains National Park 79 km
A national park straddling the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, with the border of Tennessee and North Carolina running through its centre. It holds some of the highest peaks in eastern North America, among them Kuwohi and Mount Le Conte, often wrapped in a blue haze.
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta 236 km
A Hindu mandir in Lilburn, a suburb of Atlanta, opened by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha in 2007 and built to the Shilpa shastras. It is made of 34,450 pieces of hand-carved Italian marble, Turkish limestone and Indian pink sandstone, set in landscaped grounds.
World of Coca-Cola 260 km
A museum of the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, the city where the drink was first made. Opened here in 2007, it covers the company's history and old advertising, with a vault said to hold the secret formula and a tasting room of drinks from around the world.
Georgia Aquarium 260 km
The largest aquarium in the United States, and the largest in the world when it opened in 2005. Its seven galleries hold more than 42 million litres of water, and whale sharks and manta rays glide through the biggest tank.
Mammoth Cave National Park 367 km
A national park in south-central Kentucky built around Mammoth Cave, the longest known cave system in the world. Guided tours lead through its passages and chambers, while above ground the Green River winds through wooded hills.
Grand Ole Opry 380 km
The home of the longest-running radio broadcast in American history, a live country music show founded in 1925 as the WSM Barn Dance. Famous names and new chart-toppers share its stage, where a circle of wood from the old Ryman Auditorium is set into the floor.
U.S. Space & Rocket Center 384 km
A museum of the American space programme in Huntsville, the city where many of NASA's rockets were developed. Its collection of rockets and artefacts includes a Saturn V, and it is the home of Space Camp.
Monticello 457 km
Thomas Jefferson's hilltop home outside Charlottesville, a house he designed himself and kept reworking for decades. The plantation around it was worked by enslaved people, whose lives the estate now presents alongside his, and the house appears on the American nickel.
Questions
Where is Biltmore Estate?
Biltmore Estate is in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Great Smoky Mountains National Park (79 km), BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta (236 km), World of Coca-Cola (260 km).
How do I get the Biltmore Estate stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Biltmore Estate and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your North Carolina volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Biltmore Estate before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your North Carolina volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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