This was mentioned as an aside in Red Bulletin.....Asheville, NC was mentioned in an article about 5 places to do extreme sports...............Asheville was running up a mountain......surfing in No. Oregon was another........Hawaii........San Fran....swimming from Alcatraz to San Fran........Michigan's upper penn......another....

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Biltmore Estate
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
Biltmore House
Location	Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Coordinates	35°32′22.74″N82°33′3.42″W
Built	1889–95
Architect	Richard Morris Hunt; Frederick Law Olmsted
Architectural style	Châteauesque
NRHP Reference #	66000586[1]
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966; 49 years ago

Biltmore Estate is a large (8,000 acre) private estate and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore House, the main house on the estate, is a Châteauesque-styled mansion built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 square feet (16,622.8 m²)^[2] of floor space (135,280 square feet (12,568 m²) of living area). Still owned by one of Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today as one of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gilded Age. In 2007, it was ranked eighth in America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.