Some of our favorite hiking spots in Western North Carolina won’t look the same this spring. Hurricane Helene wiped away ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge Mountains ... (An alternative route takes hikers around a closed section along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line in Mitchell County.) ...

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 ...

Another WNC classic, the Nantahala Byway guides travelers through 43 miles of the Nantahala Forest, including 20 miles ...

Earl Shaffer / Earl Shaffer Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History One of Earl Shaffer’s slides shows the crestline boundary between North Carolina and Tennessee.

Hiking the Appalachian ... the North Carolina-Tennessee state line in Mitchell County.) Mike Crooks, left, a rafting guide with Wahoo’s Adventures, prepares to ferry Appalachian Trail hikers ...