Laurel Park is a town in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States.

By 1903, a rail line had been built up Fifth Avenue in Hendersonville to bring day-trippers and summer visitors to Rainbow Lake to enjoy swimming, boating, dancing, camping, and gambling at the Laurel Park Casino.

[7] That same year, Commodore J. Perry Stolz, builder of the popular and expensive Miami Fleetwood Hotel in Florida, arrived in Hendersonville with plans to repeat his success at the top of Jump Off Mountain near Jump-Off Rock.

This 15-story hotel, also to be called the Fleetwood, would have a brick exterior trimmed with marble, all the modern conveniences, and a radio station at the top.

A new concrete road (named Laurel Park Highway) was built up the mountain to the hotel site; this was used for transporting construction materials.

After the stock market crash, the town slowly transitioned from a summer recreational resort to a more residential community.

[9] In recent years, the town has been one of the areas of Henderson County trending the most to the Democratic Party.

[11] Laurel Park is located in central Henderson County on the eastern slopes of Jump off Mountain.

[5] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,250 people, 1,153 households, and 768 families residing in the town.