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 ...
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 ...
NPR's Brian Mann explored one of the easy trails in the Linville Gorge Wilderness in North Carolina. A hike in North Carolina's Linville Gorge Wilderness offers sweeping views, solitude I set off ...
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 ...