the town of only about 1,000 residents offers some of the best outdoor recreations in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Travelers can paddle or float down the Upper James River Water Trail, watch movies ...

High in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, away from the chaos and the ... and a private stretch of the Cowpasture River, considered to be Virginia's cleanest smallmouth bass and trout river.

Blue Ridge Mountain Trail Rides offers the chance to ... Amicalola Falls is the tallest cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi River. Recent visitors called the sheer size of the falls ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge Mountains takes people through ... Helene took out a bridge over the Nolichucky River, severing two sections of the Appalachian Trail near ...

The ancient rock, created during the formation of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is actually a jagged cliff at 4,000 feet above sea level overlooking Johns River Gorge at 3,000 feet below. And from the ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Hundreds of people have been asked to leave their homes in North Carolina and South Carolina as a half-dozen large fires are burning in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Smoke from those ...

The Blue Ridge Road bridge that crosses the Swannanoa River was destroyed during Helene ... for the Interstate 40 and Blue Ridge Road interchange project in Black Mountain. North Carolina Department ...