Pack Square Park

It's a good setup for a festival but not overly well maintained. I do think the covered stage is pretty cool. The sound quality was great on this particular setup.

Such a mixed bag, depending on the event. We have been going to pack Square for about 20 years now. During the day it’s lovely with the splash park, but sometimes in the evening, depending on the free concert, you do get some rowdy folks. Not super rowdy people, and it’s certainly not Our own house less folks, although some people like to blame the houseless population. They seem to be rowdy folks that are there to drink and they’re usually pretty drunk before the concert even starts. And they are stepping on people’s toes and not aware of their body and their surroundings and just generally making things dangerous. It would be lovely at the events when they are serving drinks if they had more police patrolling, again, not for our local houseless population, because they’re really not doing anything wrong, but for the rowdy who have clearly had too much to drink. And it also often seems like these folks are coming from out of town, because they talk about it, how much they love being able to go to Asheville and really listen to the music and get drunk. So I’m hoping we’re monitoring them. It would be lovely if there could be more police presence That is focused on those people overindulging and not focused on people just merely sitting and enjoying the park. All that said, if it is not a big free concert that folks are coming to drink and be loud, it is a super safe space. We have had our kids’ ballet recitals there. We have had all sorts of lovely family- focused activities there. It just seems to be the bigger names that draw the crowds for the free concerts (often out of town, and I also see them littering and throwing things around. Hey, it’s not their town, right)? So they’re disrespecting our park. I would love to see more police presence handling those folks in particular. This concert in particular that you see in the photos, in one where my husband performed with the Asheville beer choir, as an opener before a big headliner. And I guess it had been a long time since we’d gone to a big headliner event, but wow, we were surprised at the rowdiness.

We visited the park during the 2025 Labor Day weekend Boomtown Festival and it was the perfect place for vendors and live music concerts!

Nice lil place to hang out - had some fun stuff going on there last night

Pride was awesome this year!!! Thanks to the Officers that were present making sure we were all safe and having s great time!

This city center park in downtown Asheville is where it all happens. There's a large amphiteater, a cooling fountain and the first skyscraper in the city. At one end, city hall. At the other is the Vance Monument (Zebulon Vance was the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina). Neat spot for festivals and music performances. Veterans Memorial. The concept for the square started in 1901 when an Asheville philanthropist George W. Pack donated land to the county, it was named Pack Square. The park opened in 2009 at 6.5 acres and includes the Rover McGuire Green and the Reuter Terrace. Great spot to hang out, any time of the year.

Asheville's Beautiful Downtown park. Easy and Walkable distance from public parking lot.

Wow this grocery store is amazing! Clean, organized, lots of food and dietary selection has lots of options New light saving set up so that when you walk by the coolers the lights only come on when you walk by which was cool. Was not busy at all and was able to find everything I needed. Met a very sweet old lady named Esther. She complimented me on my outfit and then I asked her if she needed a ride but she had a Uber or Lyft waiting. She moved here from Canada was just so cute and sweet. The only reason this is getting four stars is because it was pretty expensive and the bathrooms needed to be cleaned. The employee that was by the self-checkout did go to customer service for me and got a card for discount even though he wasn't thrilled about it