North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway features several long hikes that reward endurance with sweeping mountain views, dense ...

On Monday, January 12, 2026, Yancey County in N.C. became the 29th county to adopt the resolution, said the foundation.

The Blue Ridge Parkway from milepost 0 to milepost 198 in Virginia, which closed due to impacts from Hurricane Helene, reopened at 8 a.m. on Friday. This includes almost 200 miles of the scenic byway ...

Blue Ridge Rising earned the Public Lands Alliance’s 2025 Outstanding Public Engagement Award. The Foundation is partnering with Friends of Southwest Virginia, based in Abingdon, Va., to implement the ...

Growing up in Georgia, with a Granny from Tennessee and a Granddad whose Scots-Irish ancestors settled the Blue Ridge region nearly 300 years ago, Appalachian culture was part of my birthright. Though ...

After Hurricane Helene pummeled western North Carolina, Blue Ridge Public Radio became a vital source of emergency and recovery information. The station’s newsroom was tested as never before to ...