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 ...

Everything you’ve heard about Linville Gorge is almost true. It’s a rough place, full of snags and blowdowns. The trails aren’t blazed, though there are a few signposts. But it’s a lot less crowded ...

NEBO, NC (WSPA) The US Forest Service reports there is a 75 acre wildfire burning near Shortoff Mountain at the south end of Linville Gorge. They say the White Creek Fire was reported around 4 p.m.

A wildfire in the Linville Gorge wilderness has more than doubled to 1,300 acres, much of it from efforts to burn off fuels that could stoke it. The U.S. Forest Service said the 160 firefighters at ...

The wildfire in the southern Linville Gorge wilderness now covers more than four square miles but is 50 percent controlled, the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday. The fire, called the White Creek ...

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 ...