The Blue Ridge Parkway Association created a handy smartphone app to help customize your adventure with a mile by mile guide and map filled ... Parkway Waterfalls Hiking Tour from Asheville ...

Offering more than 500,000 acres of land about 30 miles southwest of downtown Asheville ... With hundreds of miles of trails and numerous waterfalls and swimming holes, the forest provides ...

Todd Runkle is the Carolinas Connect editor and also a trending news editor for the Asheville Citizen Times, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at trunkle@gannett.com.

The map is interactive, is updated hourly and provides detailed information on each fire. Todd Runkle is the Carolinas Connect editor and also a trending news editor for the Asheville Citizen ...