08/12/2026
It's ✨Time Travel Tuesday✨ and we’re only traveling a few steps down Haywood Street.
In 1974, the Asheville Civic Center opened its doors, adding a new arena, exhibition hall, banquet hall and meeting spaces to a growing downtown Asheville. Over the decades, those walls have seen everything from concerts and conventions to basketball tournaments, family shows and some truly memorable nights in Asheville history.
Today, we know it as Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville, and it’s still bringing the crowds to our corner of Haywood Street. From the Southern Conference Basketball Championships to Warren Haynes’ legendary Christmas Jam and plenty more throughout the year, more than 50 years later, the show is still going on right around the corner from Haywood Park Hotel.