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 recent weather events ...

Burke Search and Rescue had a busy weekend responding to two separate incidents involving lost hikers in Linville Gorge. On Saturday evening, rescuers were dispatched to assist two hikers who were ...

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 ...

BURKE COUNTY, N.C. — The soaring temperatures here in the Carolinas have a lot of people heading to the High Country to cool off. But more visitors means more people run into problems. In the Pisgah ...

Plunging waterfalls, rugged, deep canyons, and endless ridgelines are just some of the most soul-stirring sights that your eyes can feast on in North Carolina's third-largest wilderness area, where ...

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 ...