Its name was said to have been coined in the mid-1800s[2] by James W. Patton, who once teased his sister-in-law, Charlotte Kerry, after watching her stroll the mountainside with her "beau".

They are: US 70/US 74A via Beaucatcher Tunnel (completed in 1927), I-240 via Beaucatcher Cut (completed in 1980), and a Town Mountain Road (NC 694) which leads towards the Blue Ridge Parkway.

[5][6] Beaucatcher Mountain originally had two reservoirs: White Fawn Reservoir[7] (long ago decommissioned and filled in with construction debris) and Lake Kenilworth.

[8] The reservoirs provided drinking water to the city of Asheville beginning in the 1880s.

Waters from the mountain eventually make their way to the French Broad River.