ASHEVILLE - The entire Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, including the Asheville corridor, is closed until further notice after a winter storm ... to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park ...
North Carolina, in particular, is the site of the convergence of the Appalachian Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains ... Beech Mountain is an idyllic winter wonderland that rests 5,506 feet ...
Winter weather alerts are in effect for parts of the North Carolina and Virginia Mountains beginning Sunday morning through early Monday morning. Near normal highs in the low 50s and upper 40s are ...
The mountains are a subrange of the Blue Ridge Mountains and one of the Balsam peaks, Cold Mountain, is the subject of North Carolina author Charles Frazier's 1997 novel by the same name.