Baseball games and apple pie baking hasn't stopped. Don’t let that other favorite American tradition — the road trip — get cut due to the rising gas prices. Let us do the math for you. Below are the actual costs to get to Asheville from select cities.
How much does it really cost?
AAA’s Fuel Cost Calculator allows you to enter your starting location and Asheville to see how many miles you’ll be traveling, how many gallons of gas you’ll use and what that costs in gas money. You just might be surprised.
For example, a trip from Atlanta to Asheville is 207 miles one way and uses 6.9 gallons of gas if your vehicle averages 30 miles per gallon. That means in gas money, it only costs $16.70 to get to Asheville from Atlanta. Here’s how much it costs from other cities:*
| Knoxville, TN | $9.20 | 114 miles | 3.8 gallons of gas |
| Charlotte, NC | $10.41 | 129 miles | 4.3 gallons of gas |
| Atlanta, GA | $16.70 | 207 miles | 6.9 gallons of gas |
| Raleigh, NC | $20.09 | 250 miles | 8.3 gallons of gas |
| Charleston, SC | $21.54 | 267 miles | 8.9 gallons of gas |
| Cincinnati, OH | $29.77 | 369 miles | 12.3 gallons of gas |
*This information was calculated in September 2009 with Southeast prices averaging $2.42.
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