When driving the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, we highly recommend stopping along the way. Our author especially likes one ...

North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway features several long hikes that reward endurance with sweeping mountain views, dense ...

It's hard to find a place anything but charming when it's in the mountain foothills, but this city adds a lively downtown to ...

I grew up picnicking up and down the Blue Ridge Parkway, north and south of Asheville. In our family’s wood-paneled station wagon, my father at the helm, we sailed the sinuous path of the parkway, ...

On Good Friday, my friend Justin Rollins texted me around 7:55 a.m.: “I’m ready to rock.” After a stop to get more water, we headed from Spartanburg to the Blue Ridge Parkway to hike 13 miles up Black ...

ASHEVILLE - The Blue Ridge Parkway, the most-visited site in the National Park Service, is sure to see high numbers of sightseers, hikers, campers, picnickers and of course, drivers this July, ...

Drive a stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway and stop at Thunder Hill Overlook, where rolling ridgelines ripple toward the horizon. Order the shrimp and grits at Over Yonder, a soulful plate of ...

LEAD VOLUNTEER: David Angelus, the lead volunteer at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, says a lot people ask him where they can see a bear. Part of his job, he explains, is to "protect people ...