Travel and Outdoors

The recently adopted Close the GAP plan, an 800-page document two years in the making, outlines how to make walkways safer, more accessible, and better-suited for commuters.
Asheville Adventure Company’s e-bike tours offer accessible natural excursions.
Poisonous Jack O’Lantern mushrooms resemble seasonal gourds and also glow in the dark.
We’re sharing red hot facts about NC’s official state bird.
Celebrate Asheville’s seven international sisters, which span from Dunkeld & Birnam, Scotland to Saumur, France.
Need a new hobby that will make time fly? You may enjoy these local disc golf courses.
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See extra orange in the trees this fall? It’s not just leaves — it’s a contingent of the ~500,000 monarch butterflies making their annual migration South.
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The Bailey Mountain hike is an annual tradition for Mars Hill University’s new students to get outside, challenge themselves, and connect with faculty, staff + the world around them.
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This essential road will reopen to traffic on the afternoon of Friday, April 4 after more than six months since Helene wreaked havoc on the corridor.
Lace up your sneakers — the stadium’s construction has wrapped up, and you’re invited to take the new six-lane track for a spin.
Since 2006, the studio has been an institution in music — producing Grammy award-winning work.
As the lauded list expands to our region, WNC restaurants will be contenders for the recognition.
Three words: Ice cream nachos.
The 72-mile relay from Asheville, N.C. to Greenville, S.C. returns with record-breaking numbers.
If reading is your activity of choice, try one of these Asheville spots the next time you crack open your favorite novel.
Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity has been busy hosting out-of-town college students interested in spending their spring break volunteering.