Can I take an RV onto the estate, and is there camping?

You can take it in. RV parking is in Lot C with a complimentary shuttle to the house, and it is included in your admission. Camping is another matter entirely: no campground exists on the estate, and tents, grills and tailgating are barred from the lots and grounds.

What does a Christmas trip cost?

Our rates run from $100 a night for the travel trailer to $210 for the campervan, with the campsite billed by the park and delivery quoted once we know where it is going. Daytime estate tickets start around $90 and the evening Candlelight ticket around $125, both varying by date.

Which campgrounds are actually open in December and January?

Fewer than you would hope. Asheville RV Park Resort in Fletcher, Asheville Bear Creek and the two Asheville KOAs all advertise year-round opening on full hookups. Lake Powhatan runs year round on reduced services; North Mills River loses its water and power altogether.

Do you deliver, and how big are the units?

We deliver across Western North Carolina and connect the unit on your site before you arrive. Everything we run measures 24 feet or under, which sits inside the length limit at every year-round park near Asheville with a good deal of room left over.

RV Rentals for Christmas at Biltmore

The season runs November 3 to January 10. RVs park free in Lot C, but the estate has no campground, so book a winter site early.

Class C motorhome on a full-hookup site at a year-round Asheville area RV park in December

Ten weeks of it

RV Rentals for Christmas at Biltmore in Asheville, NC

The Estate Parks RVs, and Says So in Writing

Most ticketed venues either stay silent on oversized vehicles or turn them away. Biltmore publishes the opposite. RV parking is in Lot C, a complimentary shuttle runs from there to the house, and parking is included in admission rather than charged on top. Drivers are told to find the first available parking host for help.

The Hard Part Is January, Not the Estate

Getting in is straightforward. Finding somewhere to sleep is not. The season runs into the second week of January, and most campgrounds in these mountains shut from November through March. The handful that stay open all year are the whole decision.

Lauren T., Charlotte, NC: "Everything was handled professionally from start to finish. The delivery to our campsite in Asheville made the whole experience stress-free."

Christmas at Biltmore Asheville RV Renter Review

Compact motorhome interior warm on a December evening in the mountains

November into January

The Ticketing Decides This Trip

The daytime season runs November 3 to January 10, with Candlelight Christmas Evenings ending a day earlier on January 9. Ten weeks is a long window, and the details that shape a trip are all in the ticketing:

Entry to the house is timed and reserved, every day, for every guest, so the day is built around a slot you chose weeks earlier
Candlelight is a separate and dearer ticket rather than an add-on, and it already includes daytime access to the grounds, village and winery
Booking in advance saves ten dollars a ticket against the gate price
Parking costs nothing on top of admission, which is worth knowing before anyone budgets for a lot fee
Tents, grills, large coolers and tailgating are barred from the lots and the grounds, so the car park is not somewhere to linger

You arrive, you park, you ride in, and you sleep somewhere else.

Open through winter

The Few Parks That Stay Open Past November

At one of the few parks that does not close for the season. Asheville RV Park Resort on Jillian Trail in Fletcher runs full hookups at 30 and 50 amp and advertises year-round opening, taking motorhomes to about 45 feet. Asheville Bear Creek on South Bear Creek Road is open all year too, with every site on full hookups across 25 pull-through and 65 back-in spaces. Both Asheville KOAs, east at Swannanoa and west at Candler, also run year round.

The national forest sites are not a straight swap either. Lake Powhatan does stay open all year, though on limited services from November, while North Mills River drops to pit toilets with no water and no power at all. One caution on the east KOA: it reopened after Hurricane Helene but still has areas under repair and closed to guests. A Class C motorhome is the easiest of ours to heat and to place.

One thing to ask the park directly, because none of them publishes it: whether site water stays on through a hard January freeze and whether they expect you to bring a heated hose. It decides whether the week runs on hookups or on jugs. Then check your dates with us and we deliver the unit there and connect it before you arrive, and you drive in to Lot C, leave the rig and take the shuttle up to the house. If the dates move, our events page lists what else runs that season.