For the second time this spring, a hiker has died in a fall at Linville Gorge in the western North Carolina mountains. Michael Patrick Ryva, 30, fell about 80 feet in the gorge and died at the scene, ...

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 ...

A hiker who fell from a North Carolina mountain had to be carried out of Linville Gorge Wilderness area after weather conditions prevented a helicopter from reaching the site, Burke County Search and ...

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 ...