The North Carolina section offers many of the Appalachian Trail's highest peaks, several above 6,000 feet. Hiking enthusiasts can set out on a multiday or weeklong journey (keep in mind that you ...

Some recovery work in the North Carolina mountains since ... be in place in the spring. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy regularly updates its interactive map showing the status of the trail.

The trail is on private property and dogs are not allowed. A fenced gravel parking lot is available near Little Pisgah Road. The view from a section ... miles of Appalachian Trail in NC after ...

Whether you drive a small section of the ... follow the Blue Ridge Music Trail of North Carolina to find cool local spots where you can hear every manner of Appalachian music in concert, including ...

(CNN) — Five months after Hurricane Helene severed a critical Appalachian freight ... of I-40 connecting North Carolina and Tennessee in late September, this section of the highway served ...

Her sister became fascinated with the beauty of Western North Carolina ... the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail in 2001. Houghton decided she wanted to do it and started section hiking the trail ...

Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, just a short drive from downtown, features 25 miles of carriage trails winding through 3,500 ...

Perched at 3,500 feet above sea level, Blowing Rock offers the kind of small-town magic that big cities spend millions trying to replicate on movie sets. But there’s nothing artificial about this ...

It is part of the 1,000-mile Mountains-to-Sea Trail, which will connect Clingman's Dome in North Carolina's Great Smokey Mountains National Park to Jockey's Ridge State Park all the way at the coast.

The trail runs along the Tennessee/North Carolina border for approximately 220 additional miles, according to The Appalachian Trail Conservancy, a nonprofit organization formed in 1925 that ...

"It also was (started) to recognize that we are the only town in North Carolina to have the Appalachian Trail running through Main Street," Hall said. "It's the first one that the northbound ...

To date, the US Forest Service has surveyed and cleared nearly 240 miles of roads (nearly 76% of roads) across the Appalachian Ranger District.