While many national and state parks in Western North Carolina remain closed after Helene's destruction, Gorges State Park is ...

The park features a variety of hiking trails, waterfalls, and recreational activities ... Carolina border — home to a third of Western North Carolina's rare or endangered species — was ...

One of the cutest towns in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Brevard, even prides itself as the "Land of Waterfalls" (there are 250 of them in the area). These waterfalls are spread acros ...

Fewer than 15 years before, this sprawling Appalachian temperate rainforest near the South Carolina border — home to a third of Western North ... its rivers and waterfalls funneled through ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto An uprooted tree fell onto a North Carolina home, killing 11- and 13-year-old brothers, firefighters ...

We’ve learned tragedy also hit North Carolina. The storm is responsible for the deaths of two children in Transylvania County ...

An unusual home for North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains comprises a Japanese-style farmhouse set on 18 bucolic acres with a rushing waterfall as its centerpiece. The property has 800 feet of ...

where images of warm sandy beaches and majestic mountain waterfalls might easily come to mind. But what might not come to mind, fresh powder, beckoning 100s of 1000s to the North Carolina ski slopes.

THE TABLE ROCK COMPLEX FIRE. NOW MORE THAN 10,000 ACRES AND AT 0% CONTAINMENT. MEANWHILE, CREWS ARE SEEING PROGRESS IN POLK ...

High winds, abnormally dry conditions and debris from Hurricane Helene have only increased difficulty for firefighting crews.

Seven out of 12 towns on this list of "off the beaten path" choices in N.C. were located in the Western region. Here's why.