Blue Ridge National Heritage News Feed
2013
May 17, 2013
The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership has announced eighteen grants totaling nearly $225,000 in funding to preserve and promote Western North Carolina’s heritage. read more
May 16, 2013
Story by Jessica Johnson of the Mount Airy News
This Saturday, The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History premieres its newest traveling exhibit, The Luthier’s Craft: Instrument Making Traditions of the Blue Ridge. The exhibit is supported in part by a grant from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. To read the full story click here. read more
May 13, 2013
Story courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service
HAYWOOD COUNTY, N.C., - The U.S. Forest Service today announced the recent completion of work to repair the scenic Max Patch area of the Appalachian Ranger District, Pisgah National Forest. read more
May 07, 2013
Story by Karen Chavez of the Asheville Citizen-Times.
DUPONT STATE FOREST — David Brown is a busy forest supervisor these days. read more
April 25, 2013
French Broad River MPO and NCDOT are sponsoring the Western North Carolina Regional Travel Survey. The purpose of this travel survey is to collect information on local household travel behaviors. Residents of Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania Counties will be invited to take part in this important survey. read more
April 25, 2013
April 22, 2013
The Great Smoky Mountain National Park has announced that several trails within the park will be closing for a time as crews work to repair flood damage that occured over the winter. For more information on this developlement check out this story from the Asheville Citizen-Times. read more
April 15, 2013
US Highway 441 has reopened in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The road has been closed since January after a landslide destroyed a section between Cherokee, NC and Gatlinburg, TN. US - 441 serves as the main thoroughfare through the Park and its reopening comes just in time for the Spring/Summer season. For more information check out this story by the Asheville Citizen-Times. read more
April 03, 2013
Today, the National Park Service released its annual numbers on the most-visited sites throughout the park system in 2012. Though there aren’t many surprises in this year’s lists, it’s always interesting to see some of the most popular parks in the country and how these numbers compare to previous years. (You can find last year’s numbers on NPCA’s website.) read more
April 02, 2013
BATTLE OF THE BANDS UNPLUGGED BENEFIT TO SAVE MRS HYATT’S MUSIC HOUSE APRIL 13-14 read more
