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A hiker’s death on the Blue Ridge Parkway is renewing concerns about trail safety and staffing as visitation climbs and the ...
NC/VA— During the week of April 19 to 27, 2025, the Blue Ridge Parkway will host over one-dozen ranger-led programs to celebrate National Park Week and encourage park neighbors and visitors to get out ...
This is scheduled for completion by the end of summer 2025. Once that work is done, NCDOT will start removing the old bridge.
Creeks, streams, and rivers provide a sense of place, a grounding at times, an identity for surrounding communities. They ...
Just about any resident of Asheville - visitors, too - knows and loves the Blue Ridge Parkway ... Called a "misty mountain escape" by WorldAtlas writers, the Great Smoky Mountains Scenic Byway ...
The two-story main house sits on more than 5.38 acres on Sherwood Drive South in the heavily wooded mountain town in the Blue Ridge Mountains region. Built in 1938, and updated by the sellers ...
The final leg of the Loafer Mountain Parkway project is underway. Elk Ridge Drive from 11200 South to Sky Hawk Way recently closed for road improvements and will stay closed until its estimated ...
Lori Campbell was pumped about her spring getaway to Zion National Park. At 73, the San Francisco resident considered it “a bucket list trip,” and she and her husband had already picked out hikes and ...
Hurricane Helene caused at least 57 landslides on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, damaging roads and trails across 200 miles, the National Park Service said. The storm, which also damaged ...
ASHEVILLE - Felled trees, erosion, trail and culvert damage from Tropical Storm Helene left swaths of the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway closed along its winding path through the mountains of Western ...
A hidden gem tucked away in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains offers exactly that experience. Abingdon, Virginia – known as the 'England of the Blue Ridge Mountains' – is possibly America's most ...