I kept my head down and my eyes just ahead of my feet as I crouched along a slippery rock face, trying to ignore the nagging thought that I could fall to my death, impaled upon a tree below. Above me, ...

This North Carolina trail in the Blue Ridge Mountains is an exhilarating adventure with a spooky side trail, which leads to the site of a 1978 plane crash.

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Since Sugar Mountain is located high in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, it’s a great base camp for the best hiking to panoramic scenery, lush woodlands and waterfalls. Our mile-high ...

Fall colors are peaking now in the higher elevations. Arthur Griffith led a small group of hikers up to the bald on Big Yellow Mountain where you can see Table Rock, Hawksbill Mountain, Grandfather ...

LINVILLE — Grandfather Mountain, the not-for-profit nature park run by the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, has partnered with Cranberry Middle School to create the TRAIL (Teaching ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Four NC state parks ranked among top U.S. parks for value stays in 2025. Pilot Mountain and Grandfather Mountain parks earned top-20 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A ...