While many national and state parks in Western North Carolina remain closed after Helene's destruction, Gorges State Park is ...

North Carolina has a lot to offer ... As is the case with Whitewater Falls, parking admission is required at Sliding Rock. Located near Brevard as well, this is a 60 foot natural water slide ...

Fewer than 15 years before, this sprawling Appalachian temperate rainforest near the South Carolina border — home to a third of Western North ... its rivers and waterfalls funneled through ...