More than half of the Blue Ridge Parkway remains closed in North Carolina because of damage from the remnants of Hurricane Helene. This map shows the closed sections in red as well as eight places ...

“Heat exhaustion, rolled ankles, people hiking into closed areas after the storm. It’s a known risk area.” The Blue Ridge Parkway stretches 469 miles across Virginia and North ...

BLOWING ROCK, NC. (WDBJ) - The Blue Ridge Parkway Communications Center received a report Friday around 2:57 p.m. about a hiker who had fallen into waters adjacent to the Boone Fork Trail near ...

(WDBJ) - During the week of April 19 to 27, 2025, the Blue Ridge Parkway ... route closed because of multiple storms, including Hurricane Helene, there is much about the Parkway and surrounding ...

FILE - Search and rescue teams leave the command post at St. Mary's Wilderness en route to the Blue Ridge Parkway to search for the site where a Cessna Citation crashed in the mountainous terrain ...

AND IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, A HIKER IS DEAD AFTER A FALL. ACCORDING TO BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY OFFICIALS, THIS HAPPENED FRIDAY AFTERNOON. WE’RE TOLD THAT A HIKER FELL INTO A BODY OF WATER NEAR ...

The mountains of Western North Carolina are greening up again and soon the rhododendron blooms will herald the arrival of summer along the Blue Ridge ... of the parkway remains closed in North ...