Echo Mountain Inn News Today

Blue Ridge Rentals, offering day rentals of electric bikes and three-wheel roadsters, opens on June 6 at 508 S Main St., Hendersonville.

Get ready to dance the night away at Music on Main, featuring the Asheville-based group Emporium playing a variety of hits from classic rock, disco and funk to beach music.

From staff reports People young and old will soon make their way to the Visitor Center at 201 S. Main St. in downtown Hendersonville to experience mountain heritage bluegrass music, square dancing and clogging at the annual Street Dances. The free dances will be held Monday nights, July 12 and 26 and Aug. 9 and 23, from 7-9 p.m.  The roots of Appalachian music and dance run deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina and have been passed down for generations, the Henderson Coun...

“Everything went flat line,” says Breedlove, who ran his own charter bus company in Hendersonville. “We had spring trips set with the schools, we had church trips, we had senior trips. All of it came to a screeching halt. And I had to refund a lot of money, because nobody was traveling.” With no end in sight to the shutdown of travel, Breedlove was not sure how he and his wife, Jenny, were going to make a living. “I was really worried,” he said. “One day, I got up and I said to Je...

The spring is believed to be the work of two early developers from Jacksonville, Florida. “They created the Echo Mountain subdivision,” said Town Council member Paul Hansen. It was the first subdivision up the mountain after town founder W.A. Smith developed springs, lakes and other amenities in lower Laurel Park. John H. Patterson built the large home that became the Echo Mountain Inn as a summer residence around 1896. The property has changed hands numerous times since Patterson built hi...

The spring is believed to be the work of two early developers from Jacksonville, Florida. “They created the Echo Mountain subdivision,” said Town Council member Paul Hansen. It was the first subdivision up the mountain after town founder W.A. Smith developed springs, lakes and other amenities in lower Laurel Park. John H. Patterson built the large home that became the Echo Mountain Inn as a summer residence around 1896. The property has changed hands numerous times since Patterson built hi...

  At 2:21 a.m. on Dec. 25, fire awoke occupants of the Echo Mountain Inn. The fire consumed an outbuilding that housed the inn’s business office and health spa. “Valley Hill Fire Department was here in less than 15 minutes,” said Bud Bonnema, a retired police officer from Minnesota who bought the property with his wife, Jan, in July of 2019. “They were great. Another two minutes and we could have easily lost more buildings.” The two-story 3,000-square-foot building, which stood less ...

    HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS ) — Christmas morning before the sun came up the Bonnemas woke to flames shooting up out part of the Echo Mountain Inn, located up above Hendersonville. There was snow and ice on the road, yet the inn’s owner said there was still a quick response by fire crews. But there was no saving the Walnut Wellness Center. “It didn’t take but a couple hours for the building to be completely destroyed,” said Travis Bonnema, who owns the Echo Mountain ...