Ready to explore the Carolinas on foot? This guide highlights fantastic hiking options near Charlotte — or within a couple hours’ drive — for every skill level.

This list includes the Blue Ridge Parkway, Appalachian Trail, Historic Sites, National Forest lands, and State Parks.

The highest peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains has a bit of everything that makes North Carolina great. Grandfather Mountain ...

MORGANTON — Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina (FCNC) announces the opening of a new public hiking trail on its South Mountains Headwaters Preserve property in Burke County. Named the Bob ...

Floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Helene took out a bridge over the Nolichucky River, severing two sections of the ...

Photograph by Pat & Chuck Blackley, Alamy Stock Photo Following the slope of Grandfather Mountain, the Tanawha Trail is a 13.5-mile hike along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone, North Carolina.

If you have dogs and would like options for dog-friendly hikes in Gastonia, North Carolina, here is a list of trails that you ...

writers called the Blue Ridge Parkway "perhaps North Carolina's most popular highway." Writers suggested the following stops: ...

A North Carolina ... Smoky Mountains National Park, officials say. Ann Houghton, 73, was discovered just before 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, “roughly a quarter mile off of Enloe Creek Trail ...

Tropical Storm Helene caused significant damage to hiking trails in the Hickory ... trees continues Portion of Appalachian Trail reopens: US Forest Service reopens more than 100 miles of Appalachian ...