Bat Cave is an unincorporated community in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States and is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

[4] It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names[5][6] and is also a regular victim of street sign theft, especially in the early 1990s during the popularity of the movie Batman Returns.

[7] The community, located along the banks of the Broad River and within the Hickory Nut Gorge, features several shops, inns and a post office.

The area was first connected by a Drovers' road, a natural access into the interior of the Blue Ridge Mountains for drovers who were moving livestock, mostly flocks of turkeys and some geese, herds of hogs and some cattle in and out of the mountains to the markets.

Five years later he was recognized as "Doctor of the Year.” In the 1970s, the Bat Cave Volunteer Fire Department was organized.