A view of Mount Mitchell from the Blue Ridge Parkway. At 6,684 feet above sea level, Mount Mitchell is the highest point in the eastern United States. NEWS & OBSERVER FILE PHOTO As the fall ...

Along the southern end of the tallest mountain east of the Mississippi River, hundreds of acres of critically endangered forests have been on the wish list of public and private conservation groups ...

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — Mount Mitchell State Park reopened Monday for the first time since Hurricane Helene, coinciding with the reopening of the Blue Ridge Parkway between milepost 382 in Asheville and ...

MOUNT MITCHELL, N.C. — All 13 state parks in North Carolina that were closed after Hurricane Helene have officially reopened, with Mount Mitchell celebrating with a grand ceremony on Thursday. Mount ...

Newly reopened section of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Milepost 380 in Asheville, NC. Nearly a year after Hurricane Helene triggered landslides that closed large sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway, one ...

The inclement weather that closed many Western North Carolina schools has also brought closures to the parkway on Nov. 10.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The National Park Service announced on Monday it has reopened a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway from milepost 382 in Asheville to milepost 355.3 at the Ridge Junction Overlook ...