You are invited gather firewood for personal use in the Pisgah National Forest- from now through December 2026.

Home to a 65-foot waterfall known locally as Big Falls, the Elk River Falls Area within the Pisgah National Forest is reopening on July 11 after several months of Helene debris clearing. Visitors are ...

ASHEVILLE - A band of rain and scattered thunderstorms that passed through Western North Carolina and the South Carolina Upstate March 31 helped slow the spread of area wildfires, allowing ...

The Blue Ghost fireflies in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina. Blue ghost fireflies, found in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest, emit a blue glow during mating season, creating an eerie ...

ASHEVILLE - Fire departments from across the state and South Carolina have deployed to multiple wildfires burning over 500 acres throughout Western North Carolina. Though specific causes of each fire ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Transportation has received permits to extract rock from Pisgah National Forest to reconstruct Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River Gorge, an area ...

North Carolina Department of Transportation crews will be able to take construction materials from the Pisgah National Forest to rebuild a section of Interstate 40 that washed out in Hurricane Helene.

The Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina is big -- over half a million acres -- and it's one of the most visited national parks in the country. But some visitors are unwelcome, and the ...

Nearly 20,000 acres of land in parts of Pisgah National Forest will be aerially sprayed this week — the week of June 10 — to slow the spread of spongy moth infestations. The U.S. Forest Service and ...

The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and MountainTrue, sued the U.S. Forest Service today after the agency refused to stop an unlawful logging ...

An historic mountain footbridge dating to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration has been removed from Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Video ...

Pisgah National Forest, outside of Brevard, North Carolina, is one of the few spots to catch a glimpse of this annual phenomenon. Elliott Harrell is a Raleigh-based freelance writer who specializes in ...