In its first major construction work in years, the Linville Gorge Wilderness trail system is getting some much-needed TLC after years of being smothered with love – and erosion – by the increasing ...

Linville Gorge is sometimes called the Grand Canyon of the East. It sprawls over 12,000 rugged acres on U.S. Forest Service land in western North Carolina, but some trails are accessible enough for a ...

BURKE COUNTY, N.C. — The soaring temperatures here in the Carolinas have a lot of people heading to the High Country to cool off. But more visitors means more people run into problems. In the Pisgah ...

Burke County, N.C. — A Blackhawk helicopter was used to rescue an injured hiker in the Linville Gorge Sunday afternoon. According to our newspaper partners at the Morganton News-Herald, the hiker and ...

I set off mid-afternoon into the Linville Gorge Wilderness near Morganton, North Carolina. Right from the trailhead I found dense groves of mountain laurel with bouquets of delicate pink flowers, as ...