Blue Ridge Parkway News

When: The Mount Pisgah Trail is always open; the Mount Pisgah picnic area and campground open for the season Friday.

Many visitors have expressed dismay that the Blue Ridge Parkway will not have ranger-led nature talks and hike this summer.

In the Roanoke Valley police and fire officials met up on the Blue Ridge Parkway to help get their point across.

Visitors sit and enjoy a Mid Day Mountain Music concert at The Blue Ridge Music Center.

Evidence of early settlers is everywhere in the Parkway's Doughton Park, just north of Boone, North Carolina.

This past Tuesday, Elizabeth and I took the day off and drove "north" on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Balsam Gap to the Hominy Valley parking overlook about 10 miles "south" of the Bent Creek exit near Interstate 26.

The event will be a celebration of all students and their hard work throughout the school year.

The Comfort Suites Biltmore Square Mall is located on mall premises just minutes from Biltmore and downtown Asheville.

Emily Walker will be spending her first Mother's Day weekend spreading the joy of spring, wildflowers and the special perks of motherhood.

A Hendersonville man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the death of a woman whose body was found on the Blue Ridge Parkway more than three years ago.

The fate of a Hendersonville man charged with the murder of Misty Lynn Carter, whose nude, partially burned body was found on the Blue Ridge Parkway in 2009, now rests with the jury.

Mabry Mill is one of the attractions to be found on the scenic road, completed in 1987.

I am getting to go on a weeklong road trip down the east coast where I plan to cut across the Blue Ridge parkway and drive west.

A chase of a white BMW by the Carroll County Sheriff's Department that began on Fancy Gap Mountain Thursday afternoon ended in North Carolina on Rt.

The latest is that the Blue Ridge Parkway will reopen from Milepost 364.5 at Craggy Gardens to Milepost 355 at Mount Mitchell State Park this Sunday, May 5. This section of the parkway has been closed since last November to ensure public safety during critical slope stabilization and a road reconstruction project.

A 1963 sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Charlotte, Richard Petty and Miss Winston celebrating a mid-1970s victory at North Wilkesboro Speedway, and images such as the Yellow Brick Road at Beech Mountain's Land of Oz are a few that have been featured in the exhibit Bruce Roberts Photojournalist: 50 Years of Capturing Change.

Blue Ridge Parkway Acting Superintendent Monika Mayr has announced that Price Lake Boat Rentals Inc.

Spring is blooming, and that means event season is kicking off. Here's a quick rundown of some of the smaller-town art events that offer further incentive to explore the region's art communities.

The National Park Service is unlikely to see relief from sequester cuts as lawmakers work to fix the nation's budget woes, U.S. Rep.

Citing budget cuts, the Blue Ridge Parkway will be closing, some facilities and reducing hours and services in other areas this year.