ASHEVILLE - Craggy Gardens Picnic Area on the Blue Ridge Parkway is once again a sparkling jewel of the national park site after enduring years like a neglected lump of coal. Over the past several ...

Press release from Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation: ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Sept. 19, 2025) – With the opening of a 26-mile section of the Blue Ridge Parkway from the Folk Art Center in Asheville north to ...

The Place: Blue Ridge Parkway, N.C. The Hike: Craggy Gardens Trail to the Gazebo Overlook Humidity will kick your butt every time. It’s something I learned in Louisiana, still applied when I lived in ...

Newly reopened section of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Milepost 380 in Asheville, NC. Nearly a year after Hurricane Helene triggered landslides that closed large sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway, one ...

Just in time for the busy spring tourist season, the Blue Ridge Parkway will reopen a stretch of roadway connecting the popular Craggy Gardens and Mt. Mitchell State Park areas. That section of the ...

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY – Hal and Mary Jean Herzog hike or picnic at the Craggy Gardens Picnic Area at least once a month in the spring, summer and fall, since the idyllic setting is so close to their ...

National Park Service maintenance personnel are conducting boom axe operations in multiple locations along the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway. Visitors should anticipate intermittent and temporary ...

A 61-year-old woman died the afternoon of Sept. 23 after falling down a steep cliff on the Blue Ridge Parkway north of Asheville, according to a news release from the National Park Service. Nancy ...

A 25-year-old man is dead after driving off the Blue Ridge Parkway near the Craggy Gardens Visitor Center, about 20 miles northeast of Asheville. Blue Ridge Parkway rangers say they believe the wreck, ...