The National Forests in North Carolina announced 64 miles of trails, including Catawba Falls have reopened in Pisgah National ...

The old growth forests of Western North Carolina took a beating from Hurricane Helene. Now they've lost a bid for federal protection. This worries advocates that the forests could soon vanish.

Here’s to a new year of adventure. Fill your 2025 calendar with these daytrips, thru-hikes, remote forests, and urban escapes ...

Winter transforms the Carolinas’ trails into magical escapes with icy waterfalls, quiet forests, and breathtaking views.

Emergency relief is being distributed to states who saw heavy infrastructure damage after Hurricane Helene made landfall in ...

After Helene's catastrophic damage in western North Carolina, conservation groups say an amendment to the Nantahala-Pisgah ...

These six hidden gems in Oregon have long been favorites among locals, offering a mix of natural beauty, peaceful escapes, ...

Styles went missing Oct. 31, 1994, after going on a jog in Bent Creek Recreation Area near Lake Powhatan in Pisgah National Forest. Nearly a month later, a deer hunter found her partially nude ...

Barley Pond Loop, a little known hiking path in Maryland’s Gunpowder Falls State Park, is a 1.6-mile trail with forest paths, ...

Meanwhile, in 1994, Richard Allen Jackson kidnapped, raped, and murdered a 22-year-old female jogger in Pisgah National Forest near Asheville, N.C. Prior to Karen Styles’s death, the man duct ...