The Canyon Creek hiking trail leads to massive waterfalls and alpine lakes, all the while following along a crystal-clear ...

Apr. 20—After nearly three weeks, the Shining Rock Wilderness Area is again open guests. The 18,000-acre section of the Pisgah National Forest had been closed since the Rattlesnake Branch Fire ...

ASHEVILLE - The Shining Rock Wilderness Area is now open to the public after heavy rains helped firefighters contain a nearly 2,000-acre wildfire that broke out near Cruso on March 26. According ...

UPPER STATE FIN "Following the heavy rainfalls that helped contain and control the Rattlesnake Branch Fire, the Shining Rock Wilderness Area is now reopened to the public," the U.S. Forest Service ...

The fire is on private land and the Shining Rock Wilderness Area on Pisgah National Forest around the community of Cruso, approximately 11 miles southeast of Waynesville, North Carolina.

Crews in Western North Carolina continue to work on a wildfire that began Wednesday in Haywood County. Here are the latest updates. Previously, this story covered the wildfires in Jackson and ...

The island also has a colorful origin story in Tongan mythology, which involves quarreling gods, a stolen mountain and a brightly shining anus. The island, named Tofua, consists mainly of a ...

On a recent hike out to Flower Gap on the Art Loeb Trail, I realized I had been hiking Shining Rock Wilderness for 50-plus years. I was dumbfounded, then quickly overcome with gratitude.

The group left at about noon April 1 and got off-track in the Shining Rock Wilderness Area, which spans more than 18,000 acres in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The region, roughly 35 ...