Exit 33 (Hwy 191) Pick up Hwy 191 here. The WNC Farmer's Market is north 1 mile. The NC Arboretum is south 2.1 miles. The Blue Ridge Parkway Access is south 2.1 miles. Biltmore Square Mall, Movie Theater, Shopping, Lodging and Restaurants are all here. South Carolina to Junction of I-40 Entering from the South and traversing NNW across Western NC, this is an extraordinarily beautiful drive. When you enter NC just north of Greenville/Spartanburg SC, you rise slowly through the foothills of the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains. After crossing Green River Gorge, the Eastern Continental Divide, and the Blue Ridge Parkway, you arrive in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains...Asheville, NC.