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 ...

BURK COUNTY, N.C. — Linville Gorge Wilderness Area trails have reopened, but officials in Burke County warn that visitors should be extra cautious because the landscape has drastically changed after ...

In its first major construction work in years, the Linville Gorge Wilderness trail system is getting some much-needed TLC after years of being smothered with love – and erosion – by the increasing ...

A hiker was found dead Saturday below one of the trails in Linville Gorge Wilderness area in western North Carolina, according to Burke County Search And Rescue. The identity of the hiker and cause of ...

For the second time this spring, a hiker has died in a fall at Linville Gorge in the western North Carolina mountains. Michael Patrick Ryva, 30, fell about 80 feet in the gorge and died at the scene, ...

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 ...

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 ...