North Carolina offers incredible hiking trails near the Blue Ridge Mountains, where you can enjoy small-town charm and nature's beauty. Asheville, Hendersonville, and Beech Mountain are top spots ...

Growing up in western North Carolina ... This area—about an hour west of Asheville, in the Great Smoky Mountains—is also a haven for mountain biking. Even though I have lived here all my ...

Conserving Carolina, a local land conservation group, is working to reopen trails ... near Little Pisgah Road. Youngs Mountain Trail is a strenuous 4.2-mile round trip on the north side of Lake ...